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Hi Peter<br><br>Specs depend not only on budget, but the purpose for which it is to be used, and where?<br><br>Is this a webserver or simply a fileserver for maybe music/video?<br><br>Remote or local control affects video requirements, also speed of net connection<br><br>Is power/noise a consideration?<br><br>One large sata 500gb sufficient? or terrabytes?<br><br>If going raid/sata consider PCIe server raid controllers via ebay, there are plenty at good prices<br><br>Maybe, you would do well to consider a fanless VIA micro/mini atx in a cube, for low power silent running?<br><br>Dual/Quad core will affect which OS you run, and ram needs<br><br>Have you considered a s/h server?, I just bought an IBM Xseries 100 2.4ghz for £65 + £20 post on ebay, works fine<br><br>Just a few thoughts<br><br>Aitch<br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br><br>> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:27:28 +0100<br>> From: pchilds@bcs.org<br>> To: kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> Subject: [Klug-general] Hot Swap Drives<br>> <br>> I'm looking for a bit of help on specs for a computer.<br>> <br>> I'm trying to put together a server. Nothing really high spec standard<br>> high end PC Server<br>> <br>> The only thing that needs to be good is the disks, Budget is low so<br>> need to really stick to SATA not scsi I think (Hard Disk sizes are<br>> better and the disks cheaper)<br>> <br>> If I want to be able to hot swap the disks, (Linux Soft Raid) Can I do<br>> this with Any SATA controller or do I need specialist equipment? And<br>> what about Bays are all SATA removable bays hot swappable?<br>> <br>> I'm looking at the top end Novatech Barebones with Case and then just<br>> adding the disks.<br>> <br>> Yes the machine is for work and it will be running Linux, PostgreSQL<br>> and probably the kitchen sink, (DHCP, NFS, SAMBA etc) to start with as<br>> I need to upgrade our current server and then split the load between<br>> it and this new computer, Most of the work is the PostgreSQL<br>> database..... (Thats been running without being touched for 3 years<br>> and really needs a clean up)<br>> <br>> Oh and before anyone goes silly I'm trying to keep the bill down.<br>> <br>> Any ideas or surgestions<br>> <br>> Thanks<br>> <br>> Peter<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Kent mailing list<br>> Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent<br><br /><hr />Play interactive Live Search Charades <a href='http://www.searchcharades.com' target='_new'>Are you the top Charades player? </a></body>
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