On 10/16/07, Johnny Stork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I am finally going to move from my virtual hosting solution to a > dedicated, collocated server. There just so many options these days that > it would take me all day to research everything thoroughly so I thought > I might leverage the knowledge and experience of the CLUG users. > > After a bit or research/looking, I was thinking the combo below. I am > assuming that the Opteron 2350 Barcelona will run on that Supermicro? > Also, although the SM has embedded RAID (I plan on RAID-5), would I > really benefit that much with a decent 3ware PCI-X card? > > Or, does anyone have any other suggestions? Just way to many processor > options these days to make the choice an easy one. > > Budget is not set, but I would like to keep the server and 2 cpu's under > $2500 (not including ram or drives). I plan on running CentOS 5 and the > latest cpanel/whm so I can migrate from my existing setup. > > *Supermicro AS-1021M-T2RB Opteron Barcelona 2000 1U RM 4XSATA Hotswap > RAID 2GBLAN 650W Redundant Blk* > http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=26066&vpn=AS-1021M-T2RB&manufacture=SuperMicro > > *AMD Opteron 2350 Quad Core Processor Socket F 2.0GHZ Barcelona 2MB 75W > 65NM No Heatsink Retail Box* > http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=26158&vpn=OS2350WAL4BGEWOF&manufacture=AMD
That particular opteron and mobo will go together assuming you are able to update the BIOS somehow (or it comes pre-updated for you.) Apparently I've been out of the loop wrt. AMD. I didn't even realize the quad core AMDs were out! I had been waiting so long... I ended up just getting a Xeon instead. Onboard RAID generally sucks... and the 3ware 95xx cards generally blow it out of the water for large arrays. I'm not so sure about a 4 disk array though (looks like 4 is your max with that case?) Perhaps onboard RAID 5 would cut it in this case. I've never colocated anything before, so I can't really give you any pointers in that regard. I imagine you will need to make sure the airflow is good, since you won't be losing any heat radiantly... -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
