Joshua Penix wrote: > On Feb 12, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Neil Schneider wrote: > >> 4Gb RAM >> 73Gb + Disk space >> 1U case >> >> How do you think it should be spec'd? > > That's about right, though I don't think we'd need more disk space nor > would we need all 4GB of RAM (but if it's cheap, it can't hurt to get > it). I'm sorry I'm lagging on a component list/price quote, but I > should be able to get one to this list today or tomorrow. > > One more specific question to discuss is one of SCSI/SAS (which I assume > you're suggesting due to the 73GB size quote) vs. SATA. For the load > that Sparky would handle, I believe we would be very well served by a > server-class SATA-2 drive (Seagate's NL line for example) at 7200 RPM > with NCQ. This would keep server cost down drastically, and would also > inherently solve the space problem due to SATA's typical 300-500GB > capacity. Of course we should consider nothing but a pair in RAID1 > configuration. >
Comparison weighting factors: (my opinion, of course) 10 mtbf 8 cost (including corequisites, eg scsi mobo/adapters differential) 6 power 5 performance I put power in there, because we are running on donated power. I guess my priorities are biased toward SATA. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
