On 6/16/05, Marvin T. Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > > Resorting to commodity boards with lots of SATA RAID cards also > > introduces a new factor that increases your MTBF - the heat generated > > by the SATA RAID cards would likely kill your setup. Commodity boards > > aren't really designed to accomodate lots of heat from a lot of PCI > > peripherals, which is a certain reality with RAID cards. > > I've been searching the web for the foreign suppliers of storage servers and > I found the "ServerDirect SDR-3101T 3U P4 Server w/ 12x SATA bays" > <http://www.serversdirect.com/system_dept.asp?dept_id=SD-043> good enough for > my need. If there is a similar product that is available in the local > market, that would be an advantage for those SMEs that are looking for > storage servers that is affordable enough. Currently, I'm looking for a > similar product and hopefully I can find it here in Metro Manila.
If you've read the specs of that hardware - you'd see that they're also using the same RAID controllers and type of motherboards that was followed up in this thread. They are expensive, no doubt about it, no getting away from it. I would suggest that you get a Tyan motherboard (with 64-bit PCI or PCI-X slots) for the Athlon, and the LSI Logic MegaRAID 150-6 for a good balance between price, reliability, and performance. The good thing about the old Athlon boards is that you'd only pay a premium for the casing - a full tower case - but it would come in the ATX form factor, and would only require ATX power supplies so you don't pay a premium on the PSU. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
