On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:
Well, the lack of a workable RAID with Linux, problems with (primary
application) Pick reporting illegal activation after cold starting the
server and lack of redundant hot swap power supplies has the SuperMicro /
Visionman back in the box waiting for an RMA. I think it was designed
more as a Windows machine and as an afterthought claimed to run Linux.
Anyone have a suggestion for a quiet, cool running machine, hot swap hard
power supplies and hard drives with hardware RAID (preferably compatible
with RH9 as primary app will not be supported under any release of Fedora
Core)?
there is no motherboard I'm aware of with an ata or sata hardware
raidcontroller. (I have a couple compaq ml380's with compaq smart array
controllers on the motherboard but those are scsi).
The budget allows for only $1,400 US.
serial-ata is not well supported in redhat-9. rhel-3 actually has quite
good serial-ata support for something still built on the 2.4kernel.
I like SCSI, all my servers run SCSI, this was my first exposure to SATA.
Almost all our new boxes are sata, between promsise sata 150 tx8
controllers (non-raid sata), 12 port 3ware 9500s, and fibre-channel-sata
raid enclosures, there's a continium of connection options now, and the
disks are denser and cheaper.
How is the noise level with the ML380? I am currently working with Proliant
the ml380 is quiter than the dl380, they're both pretty lound
(old) 5000R, 6400R, 6500R and DL760 units and the noise from the fans is too
much to ask someone to have in a small office environment.
I generally try and avoid sharing space with the servers except when I'm
initially building them.
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