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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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