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 -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464
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