* Didier Wiroth <dwir...@gmail.com> [2009-11-08 14:36]: > On Saturday 07 November 2009 18:51:03 Henning Brauer wrote: > > supermicro has atom-based systems. i have such a board an am happy > > with it. > > Thank you very much for your feedback, it gave me a good overview!!! > > This one looks really nice. > I think I'm gonna buy one of this model: > 1) supermicro SuperServer 5015A-H > <http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-H.cfm?typ=H> > 2) with an optional MCP-220-00044-0N to put two 750GB 2.5" HDD in it. > (running their onboard SATA RAID 1 support)
the onboard raid is none, that is the usual fake raid. you can use softraid just fine tho. > 3) with 1x 2GB ram > 4) running current. > > I have an additional question. The only (drawback), is that you can only put > a > maximum of 2 disks in this server. If possible, I would love to expand the > storage support (get more giga/terabyte to be able to securely store my > multimedia library, via in- or external storage, perhaps via their optional > riser card (pci-e x8). I'm not a hardware expert, so I would really > appreciate your opinions/ideas about what you would do. well, you can of course use the atom board in another case (giving up the "silent" and "energy efficient" points a bit tho). there's the 4x 3.5" SATA 1U case... -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
