From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: building a disk server Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:17:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4391A8E2.2070807@tmr.com> References: <7f55de720511281555s6b30355atf2b943b5148b8c37@mail.gmail.com> <1133226093.4149.18.camel@dhcpc226.office.pivotlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1133226093.4149.18.camel@dhcpc226.office.pivotlink.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Brad Dameron Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Brad Dameron wrote: >Might look at a Areca SATA RAID controller. They support up to 24 ports >and has hardware level RAID capacity expansion. Or if you want to go >cheaper look at the 3ware controller and use it in JBOD. That way you >can get the Smart monitoring and hotplug. > >Here is the server I built with 3TB usable for pretty cheap. >All this was from www.8anet.com > >Supermicro SC933T-R760 3u or SC932T-R760 rackmount Chassis with 15 SATA >Hot-Swap drive trays and triple redundant power supplies. >Any motherboard and CPU will do. I would recommend a AMD64 CPU with a >motherboard that has a PCI-X slot on it if possible. I used a Tyan S2468 >with dual Athlon 2800's and 2GB. >A 3ware 9500S-12. Not the 9500S-12MI with this case. Or the new >9550SX-12 which is much faster now. >12 - 300GB Maxtor MaXLine III drives >2 - Western Digital 36GB 10k drives > > >I use the 2 36GB drives mirrored for the OS since I had the extra slots. >Could of went with a Areca 16 port card instead. But I already had the >3ware laying around. I went with the 300GB Maxtor drives because at the >time they were the ones that had SATAII NCQ (Native Command Queuing) and >16MB cache. This setup is very fast and I use it as a NFS server for >backing up my main servers. I currently have about 20% left out of 3TB. >Time to add another one. > > The only part of the hardware I would change is the CPU setup, a single dual core setup seems more cost and heat effective now. The controller is fine, but that just gets better with time as new stuff comes out. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979