Hi, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> We are considering two RAID1 system disks, and two RAID1 data disks.
We've avoided buying Xeons. The machine we are looking at looks like this: Rackmount Chassis - 500W PSU / 4 x SATA Disk Drive Bays S2882-D - Dual Opteron / AMD 8111 Chipset / 5 x PCI Slots 2x - (Dual) AMD Opteron 246 Processors (2.0GHz) - 1MB L2 Cache/core (single core) 2GB (2x 1024MB) DDR-400 (PC3200) ECC Registered SDRAM (single rank)
Make that 4 or 8 GB total. We have seen a huge boost in performance when we upgraded from 4 to 8 GB. Make sure to use a decent 64bit Linux.
4 Port AMCC/3Ware 9500-4LP PCI SATA RAID Controller 80GB SATA-150 7200RPM Hard Disk / 8MB Cache 80GB SATA-150 7200RPM Hard Disk / 8MB Cache 250GB SATA-150 7200RPM Hard Disk / 8MB Cache 250GB SATA-150 7200RPM Hard Disk / 8MB Cache
Three options: 9500-4LP with Raptor drives 10k rpm, raid 1 + raid 1 9500-8LP with Raptor drives 10k rpm, raid 10 + raid 1 Go for SCSI (LSI Megaraid or ICP Vortex) and take 10k drives BBU option is always nice. Regards, Bjoern ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster