I have the opportunity to purchase the following used equipment for GroupStudy.com: Dell Poweredge 4200 Dual PII 300 mhz CPUs 512 MB ram 5- 4 gig SCSI drives Adaptec 7880 controller AMI raid controller with 32 MB ram NIC: Adaptec ANA 6944A TX The machine has redundant power supplies and hot-swappable disks. Some questions. First, how much total disk capacity will this machine have if we put the disks in a raid configuration? If you setup the RAID array to do disk striping does that make the aggregated bandwidth of the disk greater then if you had a single disk? If I am running Linux, will a Dual PII 300 be equivalent to what speed of a single processor? Heck, can this thing even run Linux? I am thinking about replacing our current machine which is a "Home Built" I made with an AMD Athlon 400 MHz, 256 MB/RAM, and 20 GB disk (7200 RPM). The problem with our current setup is redundancy, or lack thereof. So if a disk drive fails, it might be days before we get a new disk up and running. SO what do you think? Thanks, Paul Borghese Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=282&t=282 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
