Hello, I've been looking around at the dell site (dell preferred since it's our standard vendor) for server with a lot of disks.
I'm thinking of some box with 2U - 4U (maybe even 5) that will be a simple fileserver so that I can put debian on it make a SoftRAID (which is what I prefer since we don't have the budget to order backup RAID cards if it breaks) put a LVM on top of that and configure the shares to be available. Now dell has quite a bunch of SAN servers with 9 - 15 disks but those are all prepared SANs which means afaik that they have some OS preinstalled that will serve iSCSI block devices where I also need HBA cards in the clients. In essence all I would like would be a standard server where I can hotplug a lot of disks and be done with it (RAID resizing etc could be done from debian then). Something like 2GB RAM a decent CPU (not too much since it'll be dedicated to file services and RAID) and the option to add disks. Any hints on what to get? (open to suggestions apart from dell but I need the option of a service contract in case of hardware failure... thanks martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]