Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:52:57 -0500 From: "Charles Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Alexandr Kovalenko" <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Designing server: help needed Message-ID: <002001c290bd$bdaf0da0$0301a8c0@prime> References: <20021120163827.GA29052@nevermind.kiev.ua>
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Alexandr Kovalenko wrote: > [sorry for crosspost, as far as I'm not sure if -stable@ is appropriate list] Probably not, but that's okay. > I need to assemble server for some memory/disk/CPU-consuming tasks. > I've already decided these parts: > > CPU: 2xP-IV 2GHz > RAM: 512Mb > Motherboard: ServerWorks SE7500CW2 Without identifying the tasks, it's hard for anyone else to give you specific advice. But I suspect that for most purposes, a single CPU with more memory would probably work out better. SMP adds a lot of cost-- you've gotta get P3's or Xenon's, right, not normal P4's, to do SMP, as well as the dual-proc motherboard? > Now I need to choose storage solution for it. I have two chioces: > - SCSI RAID; > - ATA RAID; > - External ATA/SCSI RAID. > > I would like to ask you about what SCSI/ATA/External RAIDs are showed > good in your practice. How much disk storage are you going to need? What kind of I/O patterns is the workload going to entail? (What balance of reads and writes, sequential versus random access, etc.) What kind of fault-tolerance and hot-swappability do you need/want? -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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