[Klug-general] Hot Swap Drives

[nic dan]

Hi Peter

Specs depend not only on budget, but the purpose for which it is to be used, and where?

Is this a webserver or simply a fileserver for maybe music/video?

Remote or local control affects video requirements, also speed of net connection

Is power/noise a consideration?

One large sata 500gb sufficient? or terrabytes?

If going raid/sata consider PCIe server raid controllers via ebay, there are plenty at good prices

Maybe, you would do well to consider a fanless VIA micro/mini atx in a cube, for low power silent running?

Dual/Quad core will affect which OS you run, and ram needs

Have you considered a s/h server?, I just bought an IBM Xseries 100 2.4ghz for £65 + £20 post on ebay, works fine

Just a few thoughts

Aitch

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> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:27:28 +0100
> From: pchilds at bcs.org
> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Klug-general] Hot Swap Drives
> 
> I'm looking for a bit of help on specs for a computer.
> 
> I'm trying to put together a server. Nothing really high spec standard
> high end PC Server
> 
> The only thing that needs to be good is the disks, Budget is low so
> need to really stick to SATA not scsi I think (Hard Disk sizes are
> better and the disks cheaper)
> 
> If I want to be able to hot swap the disks, (Linux Soft Raid) Can I do
> this with Any SATA controller or do I need specialist equipment? And
> what about Bays are all SATA removable bays hot swappable?
> 
> I'm looking at the top end Novatech Barebones with Case and then just
> adding the disks.
> 
> Yes the machine is for work and it will be running Linux, PostgreSQL
> and probably the kitchen sink, (DHCP, NFS, SAMBA etc) to start with as
> I need to upgrade our current server and then split the load between
> it and this new computer, Most of the work is the PostgreSQL
> database..... (Thats been running without being touched for 3 years
> and really needs a clean up)
> 
> Oh and before anyone goes silly I'm trying to keep the bill down.
> 
> Any ideas or surgestions
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter
> 
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