I've just set up a Dell PowerEdge 2300 with dual PIII 450 MHz in it and
it has shown to be stable enough not to fall over itself whilst not
doing much.
I haven't been able to do much load testing on it at the moment but it
can compile a decked out kernel in under 2 min.
We got it equipped with the Dell PERC/S2 which uses the AMI MegaRaid
kernel module running a Raid 5 (ugh.. so slow) with 3 18 GB SCSI 7500
RPM LVD's in the front Hot Swap bay.
The best thing is the hot swap hardware raid, pull out one drive, the
machine starts bleating but keeps on truckin'
It is a decent box, considering that it is a pre-fab job.
I suppose that the Dell PowerEdge 4300 is similar, just more storage
capacity.
Anything more you would like to know?
Pete.
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> I'm looking at possibly deploying a Dell PowerEdge 4300 (dual PIII-500) as
> essentially a really big NFS file server. It'll be a good drive away from
> me, so I'm wondering if anyone is already using one of these with Linux,
> and if SMP is totally stable (or at least as stable as UP) under heavy
> load for disk and network i/o. If there are still SMP stability issues,
> it may make more sense to go single PIII-600.
>
> The proposed config is a Mylex ExtremeRAID, 8 9gb LVD disks, and probably
> one additional Intel Pro100 ethernet interface. I'll try it out as a 7
> disk RAID5 with hot spare, and if I don't think random i/o is fast enough,
> possibly fall back to RAID10.
>
> I may also look into building something similar, but I don't know of any
> similar platforms (8 hot-swap disks, redundant hot-swap power) other than
> Intel's high end Xeon box with 12 hot-swap drive bays split across 2
> channels. I'll probably price one of those out, but I'm guessing it'll be
> costly.
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