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<DIV><SPAN class=555211618-09092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>I am
using a dual core machine with 1GB ram just for the OS even though its not
scratching the 50% usage</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=555211618-09092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>My
raid controller is 3ware 9550SX-12LP <FONT color=#000000 size=3
face="Times New Roman">64-bit/133MHz PCI-X with </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=555211618-09092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><FONT
color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">256 MB DDR2 400 memory with ECC
protection supporting all raid types and with RISC PowerPC cpu to provide real
HW raid</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=555211618-09092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>This
host is handling more then 8TB in Raid1 and Raid5 units easy and you can leave
hot spare drives and setup fast rebuild</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=555211618-09092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Notifications both in snmp and mail will provide you alerts once a
unit is degraded or drive is giving errors (pre-fail)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=555211618-09092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>I do
recomment using real 64-bit interface and well... this card is old, you can get
newer and better similar cards.. so do the math</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=555211618-09092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=555211618-09092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Shana
tova to all</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> linux-il-bounces@cs.huji.ac.il
[mailto:linux-il-bounces@cs.huji.ac.il] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Hetz Ben
Hamo<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 09, 2010 18:36<BR><B>To:</B>
linux-il<BR><B>Subject:</B> CPU & RAM in a storage box<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Hi people,</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my <A
href="http://hetz.biz">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>
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<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>
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<DIV dir=ltr>What do you suggest?</DIV>
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<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">http://benhamo.org</A><BR>Skype: heunique<BR>MSN: <A
href="mailto:hetz-blog@benhamo.org">hetz-blog@benhamo.org</A><BR></DIV></DIV>!DSPAM:4c88ff2c14471277820751!
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