Joshua Penix wrote:
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).
More RAM is good for virtualization. Given that we are a Linux user group, having a machine capable of fully running Xen is probably a good thing.
I'd like to see ECC RAM given the size we are using, but the premium probably isn't worth it.
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.
I agree. SATA in RAID-1 is definitely the way I would go. I'd like to see a 10K RPM drive, but, again, I'm pretty sure the premium isn't going to be worth it, and we can always upgrade later.
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