JJZolx wrote: > I can't imagine 3 TBytes of internal disk space without a RAID card. > With the latest 750GB SATA drives, you'd need at least 5 SATA headers. > With 500 GB drives, 7 headers. A new RAID card from 3Ware to handle 8 > or more SATA drives will set you back at least $500, although I've seen > some discontinued 3Ware 9500S-8 cards selling on eBay for as little as > $250. Figure 8 x 500 GB drives will cost you in the neighborhood of > $2200 for the drives alone, so spending another couple hundred on the > controller card is a marginal expense.
Supermicro do an 8-port SATA controller for around $120 (converted from around £60). Software RAID is more than adequate for the purposes of serving up music for slimserver. > There's not much point in running a Pentium-M or Turion processor on a > server of that size. With all those disks, saving a bit on CPU power > consumption isn't going to do much for you. A dual-core Athlon 64 X2 > 3000+, the entry level processor in the dual-core Athlon X2 line, > consumes surprisingly little juice, especially at idle. And it's > something you likely won't grow out of as you find new uses for your > server. Agree with that. I've been looking tonight, and it seems that Pentium D 930 is the current sweet spot for price/performance. Now, if I could only work out what the best motherboard is to go with that... R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
