> 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. I'm looking at the Aopen N250A-FR motherboard-- 6 SATA headers, which I will populate [gradually, as needed] with 750 GB drives. That board also has 2 PATA headers, which I will use for system drives and a CD/DVD drive). Unless I run into performance requirements requiring a h/w RAID card (which I do not anticipate) I plan on s/w RAID. It's just a personal preference-- plus I save the cost of a drive.
> 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. Good point. But, I expect that, much of the time, the disks will be spun down. For those periods, the motherboard will dominate > 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. OK. That's something to consider. Thank you for your thoughts. I learn form all comments. DG -- dgpretzel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dgpretzel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2714 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23716 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
