[Gllug] [Fwd: Server]

[Martin A. Brooks]

At 12:12 23/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>   Any comments would be most usful as I havn't got a clue. I'll try and 
> keep people up to date as the system goes in if only because its a big 
> Linux based system within London....

I'd go for a dual processor system, and preferably athlon/opteron not intel 
based. AMD offers much more bang for buck.  Also be careful about server 
orientated chipsets.  Some manufacturers will use SiS chipsets and realtek 
NICs.  The former are renown for poor performance and quality, the latter 
are renown for greatly varying quality of manufacture.

When you say "enough disks to make a RAID array", what RAID strategy were 
you thinking of?


Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd.
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/


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