On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jorge Luis Diaz Flores < jldflores [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > 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 > I agree wireless will be the bottleneck for my wife's laptop even using 802.11n. My wired network won't be a bottleneck, I have plenty of bandwidth. > source of the bottleneck. > > Are the 1900$ just for the mobo,cpu,mem & ps ? > It is for everything: mobo, cpu and its cooling, drives, case, memory. > > why not use software raid instead of a hardware controller? > I will. I've never been using hardware RAID at home, only Linux' software RAID and only had good experiences with it. > > have you think in a more economical solution like atom base? SuperMicro > have also motherboards based in atom processors. of course if you really > Yes but it only allow 4GB of DDR2 RAM. > are thinking to use the machine also for hardware-assisted > virtualization this is not an option. > Indeed. > > which is the average percentage of processor utilization in the actual > servers? > It is not constant. At ight, outside the backup window, it is about 0%. When backing-up on tape and or doing rsync, it goes pretty high. I should measure it accurately though, you got a point. > > have you consider and AMD based configuration? the AMD Opteron 4100 > Yes but not an Opteron-based one. I'll check it! Thanks! Charles > 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> > > > > > -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/