One point of consideration since you mentioned power is that only a select few high-end SCSI RAID cards have battery-backed write cache. That way if you're in the middle of a write operation on the drive and you lose power it will be able to finish the operation when power is restored.
The Compaq SmartArray controllers have it as an option as do Dell PERC. I think some Adaptec cards also support it. Since you are going to be running databases this might be something to really consider. We almost lost a Microsoft SQL database once because of that. We have since switched to all battery-backed controllers. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Washer Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RLUG] inexpensive server hardware in town? SCSI RAID? or SATA or PATA or ?? - jim On Wed, 18 May 2005 11:20:03 -0700 "Garrett P. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
