Watch out! Dell PERC4 (or was it 3?) on-board cards store the RAID info on the disk and not the card.
Mark On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 11:20 -0700, Garrett P. Taylor wrote: > The best Reno has to offer is sort of "hobby shop" style stores. They > can get more advanced hardware like RAID cards, but you can probably get > a cheaper entry-level server from Dell or something and that will come > with a warranty. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ben Johnson > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RLUG] inexpensive server hardware in town? > > Hi. > > I'm looking for something to replace my desktop machine as the home > office server. inexpensive is a key attribute. small would be nice. > hardware raid that works well under Linux for *recoverability* (as > opposed to increased speed). 'shutdown -h now' should result in an > actual power down. after a power failure (when power is restored) it > would be nice if machine powered up as well. maybe some kind of > wake-on-lan functionality would be nice, if folks want it to sleep > through long periods of inactivity. > > It'll be running samba and mysql, and I'm sure apache and postfix as > well... and a some kind of IPSec tunnel. the mail will be > pre-filtered... apache will be for internal use only... etc.. > basically, I don't need much horse power. > > are there a places in town you'd recommend for providing inexpensive > (though reliable) machines like this? > > - Ben > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient (s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > -- Mark C. Ballew Reno, Nevada [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110
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