On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Peter Sjoberg <peters-oclug [ at ] techwiz [ dot ] ca>wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 14:48 -0400, Charles Nadeau wrote: > > > <snip> > > With that said, what's your budget? > > I would like to stay below 2000$. > I think my system landed <$800 but that was just mobo,cpu,mem & ps, the > rest (disk, case, dvd) I had since before. > I reworked my set-up yesterday, and I think I can do it for a but below 1900$ > > > > > Here are my questions: > > > • Is SATA III really worth the price difference knowing that > > my server will > > > serve at most 3 clients and that I will run RAID 5 or 6? > > Right now I am not > > > focusing on absolute speed but on stability and > > responsiveness. > > > > My thinking is no. Reson is that while SATA III gives you a > > 6BIt/s bus > > speed you're still limited by the disk speed. Even if you put > > in SDDs > > IF I use a SSD, it will be for the boot drive and even for this, I am > > not sure if I will. I am using a Seagate Momentus XT in one of my > > Ubuntu laptop and it's fast enough for me! > I seen this "put OS on SSD" but on a somewhat static system like a file > The momentus XT isn't really an SSD disk. It is a 500GB 2.5" disk that includes a 4GB SSD on-board that acts as a permanent "cache" for the disk. It persists from boot to boot. It only caches the most accessed files. I found out it helps while loading frequently used programs (Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.) on my Ubuntu laptop. Charles <snip> -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/