On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:08:36PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > For those of you that are knowledgeable, and have the time to respond > > does anyone see any troubles with this hardware selection? > I am mostly concerned with the raid Controller selection I am > expecting it to have raid 5 across 16 drives with 1 spare > > the intent is to run a PostgreSQL 8.2 Server with OpenBSD 4.0 when > they are both released > > MotherBoard GIGABYTE GA-4MXSV Socket T (LGA 775) Intel E7230 ATX > Server CPU Intel Pentium D 940 Presler 3.2GHz 2 x 2MB L2 Cache LGA > 775 Dual Core > 16 Raid Drives Western Digital 200GB WD2000JS SATA II 7200RPM 8MB > - OEM > Raid Card Areca ARC-1260 16-Port PCI Express x8 SATA 3Gb/s RAID > Controller - Retail > > > > Thank you for any Help > > Sam Fourman Jr.
I know you have your reasons for wanting RAID-5, but check this out: http://www.baarf.com/ -Damian
