[Note: reposting to debian-user, where this question is more relevant.] On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:18:44PM -0400, Pat Tadgerson wrote: > Hello, > > I am going to purchase a new dell server, and I am going to load a debian > operating system on it. I was hoping you could recommend a good server for > me. I ask, because I have read about so many problems with sata drives and > raid controller problems. I am not a real hardware person, but I would like > a server with 2 hard drives with about 160 gigs of storage, with a raid 0 > configuration. I will be loading expert26 manual configuration. > Unless you need the big name support or your organization gets a very good discount from Dell, then I would recommend against them. I purchased two TYAN Transport GT20 barebones servers (model B2865G20S4H) in a 1U formfactor, four Seagate Barracuda 250 GB SATA drives, eight 1 GB low profile Kingston PC3200 ECC RAM modules, and two AMD Operton 148 CPUs, for approximately $2800. Now, I think you would be hard pressed to get the same bang for your buck from Dell. I installed the unofficial Sarge amd64 distro and every single thing was recognized out of the box. The only thing I have that is not working yet is hardware sensors, but that is more becuase I have not taken the time to actually set it up. Each machine runs with two hard drives in a RAID1 configuration with LVM over top of it. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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