<div dir="ltr">Hi Hetz,<br>My experience is with raid backup servers, that need to keep data but don't have to be the fastest. <br>I wouldn't go so far with it at the start. <br>Take some old server box.<br>Buy a killer power supply for hard drives stability. <br>
Now test the setup using mdadm as raid.<br>This will most likely be good for you. <br>If it's not mission critical, hardware raid is not mandatory, because with mdadm you get updates, which are very easy to apply. <br>
Now you just have to watch the server load and ram to decide if you need better hardware. <br><br>Regards,<br>Kfir<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/9 Hetz Ben Hamo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hetzbh@gmail.com">hetzbh@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my <a href="http://hetz.biz" target="_blank">VPS business</a>. I did some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my own. (12 TB before all the RAID stuff, after that it would lot less). All other solutions are very expensive (example: IBM EXP 3000 costs here 6K nis without a single hard disk). </div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'm planning to use hardware based RAID card, minimal Linux distribution and have some offers like iSCSI, NFS, CIFS - the usual suspects.<br clear="all"><br></div><div dir="ltr">
My question is: since I'll use hardware RAID card, which processor and how much RAM should I put in such a machine? Xeon is overkill IIRC.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">What do you suggest?</div><div dir="ltr">
<br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks and Shana Tova</div><div dir="ltr">Hetz</div><div dir="ltr"><br>-- <br>my blog (hebrew): <a href="http://benhamo.org" target="_blank">http://benhamo.org</a><br>Skype: heunique<br>MSN: <a href="mailto:hetz-blog@benhamo.org" target="_blank">hetz-blog@benhamo.org</a><br>
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