Hello,
I am building a brand new server box and would like some input by the
experts on what hardware to buy. The box will be a Supermicro 370DE6,
with dual PIII-1GHz, running Linux kernel 2.4.x
I was thinking of going with the new Seagate Barracuda 180s in a RAID 5
setup. 5 drives (+ 1 parity drive) gets you 900GB of disk space for about
$10k. They are thick bastards, but I don't need hot-swap, etc.
How much benefit would there be getting the 16MB cache version versus the
4MB cache?
I have been digging around in archives, etc, but can't decide which
hardware raid controller will be the best for Linux. The options for U160
multichannel hardware RAID seem to be the Mylex ExtremeRAID 2000, the
Adaptec 3400S, and the AMI MegaRAID (Elite/Enterprise 1600). I won't have
time for constant tinkering, so mature hassle-free drivers and support
software is probably my number one concern.... any hints for me? The
motherboard supports 64bit/66MHz PCI, btw.
And, from the what-a-newbie column, maybe someone can help me out here:
If I buy 3 HDs now, and put them together in a RAID5, can I simply add 3
more drives later on? I don't neccesarily want to resize the existing
partitions, but rather to be able to add new ones within the RAID. It
seems like this would be a common thing, but I seem to recall an email
saying this is problematic.
OK, thanks for your time,
Doug (shamelessly posting as root)
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