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From: Zach Thompson <hideo@lastamericanempire.com>
To: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>
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Subject: Re: need advice on hardware for a server
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* Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> [2002-05-10 11:07]:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for an advice for a server we are going to get.
> It will be a pretty busy mailserver. The price should be under 4K.
> I would like to have a hardware RAID, so this is my main question. 
> The most important for us is problem-free install. This is kind of 
> an emergency project and a lot of develpoment still has to be done, so we 
> need something that will work out of the box.
> 
> I would also appreciate pointers to some tutorials on how to setup a 
> system with a hardware RAID. Would it be detected by install? Do I have to 
> install on a regular disk first and then configure it to use RAID?
> 

I couldn't tell if you specifically wanted to build the server yourself
or not. In any event, you might want to consider someone like
www.freebsdsystems.com. They would probably solve the "out of the box"
and RAID problems for less than 4k.

Zach Thompson

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