Re: Hardware recommendations for Debian server

[Andrew Miehs <andrew@2sheds.de>]

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Word of advice - if going RAID - stay away from the ZCR cards from  
adaptec - Use md before you go this route.


Regards

Andrew


On 29/06/2006, at 11:46 AM, ZeroUno wrote:

> Craig Sanders ha scritto:
>
> > my preference is almost always for a clone PC - you get a lot more  
> > for
>
> Thanks everyone for the replies, also private ones.
>
> I think I'm mostly oriented towards the clone solution now, but  
> I'll also have a look at Dell and SuperMicro stuff that has been  
> suggested.
>
> > if you want raid-5 rather than raid-1, then go for hardware raid  
> > with a
> > large (>64MB) non-volatile cache. software raid-5 is slow. e.g.  
> > adaptec
>
> Storage is very important to us, but we already have some plans for  
> that, independent from the server machine choice (we'll use a  
> couple of internal PCI/PCI-X RAID controllers and some external  
> storage subsystem).
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