Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> 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.
Might be cool, but I don't know what we would use virtualization for.
> I'd like to see ECC RAM given the size we are using, but the premium
> probably isn't worth it.
If we get a server class board, which would be my preference, they
only accept ECC RAM.
>> 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.
Well, once we have enough RAM installed, we may find that drive IO is
the bottleneck, which is usually is. I would prefer we spend our money
on something that won't need to be replaced or upgraded for a few
years.
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