On Sep 3, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Christian Gagneraud <chg...@gna.org> wrote: >> >>> On 04/09/13 07:22, Chris Tapp wrote: >>> >>>> On 3 Sep 2013, at 00:29, Christian Gagneraud wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 03/09/13 10:16, Chris Tapp wrote: >>>>>> On 2 Sep 2013, at 22:45, Christian Gagneraud wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 03/09/13 00:35, Burton, Ross wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Ross, >>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 2 September 2013 06:05, Christian Gagneraud <chg...@gna.org> wrote: >>>>>>>> So right now, I'm thinking about: >>>>>>>> - CPU: Xeon E5, maybe 2 x E5-2670/90, for a total of 16 cores (32 >>>>>>>> threads) >>>>>>>> - Hard drives: 500GB, 1 TB or 2 TB (ideally with RAID if it can speed >>>>>>>> up the >>>>>>>> builds) >>>>>> >>>>>> RAID-5 seems to be what i am after. >>>> >>>> Hi Chris, >>>> >>>>> Isn't RAID-5 going to be slower, especially if it's software? RAID 1 >>>>> is probably better as you'll potentially double the write speed to disk. >>>>> I use a couple of Vertex SSDs in RAID 1 giving a theoretical write speed >>>>> near to 1GBs. Write endurance is possibly a concern, but I've not had >>>>> any issues using them on a local build machine. I would probably look at >>>>> some higher end models if I was going to run a lot of builds. A lot less >>>>> noise than hard drives ;-) >>>> >>>> Thanks for the info, i will have a look at RAID-1, as you can see, I know >>>> absolutely nothing about RAID! ;) you want RAID-1 if you want full redundancy. so if 1 of the disks die then you are still OK. This is generally slow since data is written to two locations. For faster build you would want RAID-0 striped so the writes happen in parallel to both disks but if any of the disks go away the whole data is lost. >>> >>> Did you see my correction to this? I meant to say RAID 0. Sorry for the >>> confusion. >> >> No problem, at least it forces me to look at RAID-5, RAID-1 and now RAID-0, >> thanks! ;) > > Sorry, my setup is a RAID0 striped SSDx2 configuration as well, not RAID1. I > have a 3TB standard drive for performing backup, since I can lose data > anytime, if any one of the drives fail. > > The cooling solution is from Corsair, and it's easy to install. > > I think, CPU motherboard, SSD, RAM, case, power supply, etc was well within > USD$ 1500. > > The apple display was the most expensive component. > > The Mac Pro, when it comes out would be a perfect build server, though, with > PCIe SSD, XEON CPUs, etc. > > Elvis Dowson > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto