I have had great success with Tyan MBs for my home brew server class machines. I've also had good success with them in meeting my specifications at a price I could live with.
On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 14:10, Jason Tower wrote: > there aren't a whole lot of motherboards with dual gig-e and 64-bit pci > slots, certainly not inexpensive ones. by the time you get one, a big > case, high capacity power supply, CPU, ram, etc. you're looking at a > fairly hefty price tag. > > my suggestion is to find a slightly older server (most have 64-bit pci > slots, and often dual or gig-e ethernet) and use that instead of trying > to roll your own. you'll get lots of disk space, solid power supplies, > good cooling, etc, without trying to reinvent the wheel yourself. let > us know how it turns out! > > jason > > On Saturday 08 May 2004 13:05, Ed Hill wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I recently built (OK, threw together) a couple of 1--2TB array > > systems with 300GB WD 5400rpm drives and 3ware PATA RAID cards. > > Given the franken-box nature of the systems (built from the failed > > nodes of one of our clusters), I'm happy that they work and thrilled > > that they seem to get good performance (>100MB/s sustained writes > > with RAID0). > > > > So now I'd like to either buy or build a few more and want to > > maximize our bang-for-buck in storage capacity. I like the 3ware > > "raid drive cages": > > > > http://www.3ware.com/products/ata.asp > > > > and want to assemble boxes with 2--4 of these cages per box. Can > > anyone recommend a motherboard that has the following features: > > > > - works nicely with Linux (preferably, a 2.6.x kernel) > > - 2+ 64bit PCI adapters > > - 1--2 on-board GigE adapters > > - relatively cheap (we do NOT need dual CPUs) > > > > and does anyone have a favorite server case (rack-mount or not) that > > would work for this purpose? > > > > Or should we just buy pre-built RAID systems? I'm fond of the idea > > of building our own since it seems significantly cheaper. And we > > don't need the dual-CPU power/expense that most turn-key RAID systems > > provide. > > > > Ed -- Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Global Knowledge -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
