Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:18:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: DA Forsyth <d.forsyth@ru.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinion request about a file server Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906080917090.3526@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4A2CD48F.7988.DBFF763@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> References: <4A2CD48F.7988.DBFF763@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za>
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> the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space > (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). > > However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 > the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. Core2 is actually only a bit faster per clock cycle than PIII, but you have 2 processors (cores) and much more cache and faster memory... > SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just > fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not > enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box why? it's a backup system not main system.
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