> > I plan to set up a big file server, something like motherboard with 4 > > ide ports and an additional 4 ide daughter card, a PIV proc and 512 or > > 1024 MB ram, a 100 or 1000 MB NIC, with 6 or 7 200 GB ide HDDs in a > > sigle box. I don't need lightning performance, just disk space. Of > > course this would be served by some linux os and samba > > I would strongly recommend using a 3ware Escalade hardware RAID card > rather than software RAID for putting the drives together.
I'm running one fileserver with 1 x PIII, 3x 100Mbit NIC, 4 x 160GB IDE drive, 2 of them connected to onboard IDE and the rest 2 to PCI 2-port IDE card. Each disk has only one partition and all are connected to linux SW RAID-1 with XFS on top. System and swap are placed on a separate SCSI disk. I must confess that I was afraid of the software raid but the experience is great, we had no problem for 1 year and the performance is very good. -- Honza Houstek -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
