Hi there
I would like to share some thoughts.
I can't avoid to think in the average use of a home file server and ask
myself if in most cases is not the network&protocol (wireless, SMB)the
source of the bottleneck.
Are the 1900$ just for the mobo,cpu,mem & ps ?
why not use software raid instead of a hardware controller?
have you think in a more economical solution like atom base? SuperMicro
have also motherboards based in atom processors. of course if you really
are thinking to use the machine also for hardware-assisted
virtualization this is not an option.
which is the average percentage of processor utilization in the actual
servers?
have you consider and AMD based configuration? the AMD Opteron 4100
Series start at 99$
http://www.amd.com/us/products/pricing/Pages/server-opteron.aspx
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 20:33 -0400, Charles Nadeau wrote:
> 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>
>