-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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... >
The nice thing about 3ware Raid cards (other than the performance) is that they are supported out of the box on any 2.6 kernel based distro. Some of the integrated ones can be a chore. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHFl4/wRXgH3rKGfMRAgMiAJ4376pTy2pRkV2eyIYEsRvXzDdSywCgq4m8 moj/ARKOxjc2zjfKkt3w00Y= =t5IT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
