Nate Duehr said on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:13:48AM -0700: > Agreed on the "as fast a CPU as you can afford" and the 10K RPM disk > comments. However I'm not a huge fan of SATA yet. There's been quite a > bit of discussion on various mailing lists of people having trouble with > them. I'm old-school and would prefer the more expensive SCSI > SCA-connector'ed disks in most of the servers I have spec'ed. Which lists? I've had a hell of a time with SCSI SCA connected disks; a single bad SCSI disk can wipe out the whole chain, whereas with SATA that seems to be less likely. I'd be interested in hearing about SATA ickyness, though; from what I've seen, it seems like a good thing. > I tend to lean toward motherboards with a real serial port on them also, > as you can configure a serial console to come up on one of them and use > that from a laptop or what-have-you when you go to do maintenance > instead of lugging a monitor/keyboard over to it. But they're getting > harder to find. Not if you get a real server board; the newer Intel based ones have BIOS access via the serial console. :) M
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