Comments on: A New File Server Begins… http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/01/08/a-new-file-server-begins/ Tech News and Rambling from a Surly Little Bastard... Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Chris Meller http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/01/08/a-new-file-server-begins/#comment-19500 Chris Meller Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:39:51 +0000 http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/01/08/a-new-file-server-begins/#comment-19500 Dual-core is a given. Still on the fence as to which way I'd like to go though. We've got Core 2 Duo on the client-end of the spectrum or Opteron and Xeon on the server-side of it. As for dual-processor, I'm not so sure that'd be advantageous. As someone in #wordpress pointed out, what are the chances I'll need 2 physical processors, each with 2 cores? Virtually no applications are going to support that many processes, so it's going to come down to a basic number of applications. Even though I'd like to replace my existing virtual server box with this one, I still don't think having an extra physical processor is going to be cost effective enough for that. And no, I only spent $160 on a SATA card... Dual-core is a given. Still on the fence as to which way I’d like to go though. We’ve got Core 2 Duo on the client-end of the spectrum or Opteron and Xeon on the server-side of it.

As for dual-processor, I’m not so sure that’d be advantageous. As someone in #wordpress pointed out, what are the chances I’ll need 2 physical processors, each with 2 cores? Virtually no applications are going to support that many processes, so it’s going to come down to a basic number of applications. Even though I’d like to replace my existing virtual server box with this one, I still don’t think having an extra physical processor is going to be cost effective enough for that.

And no, I only spent $160 on a SATA card…

]]> By: fadumpt http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/01/08/a-new-file-server-begins/#comment-19300 fadumpt Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:14:48 +0000 http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/01/08/a-new-file-server-begins/#comment-19300 btw, tell me you didn't just sink $200-300 into an SATA card....:) btw, tell me you didn’t just sink $200-300 into an SATA card….:)

]]> By: fadumpt http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/01/08/a-new-file-server-begins/#comment-19299 fadumpt Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:07:55 +0000 http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/01/08/a-new-file-server-begins/#comment-19299 You need to build a Dual Core, Dual processor Opteron on an Asus dual core board, start out with like a gig or two of Kingston DDR2 ECC ram Cost about $800 before hard drives Addonics has an awesome hot swap hard drive enclosure that fits into 3 5.25" bays and holds 4 or 5 drives depending on the model. and Seagate 400gigs are about $139 You need to build a Dual Core, Dual processor Opteron on an Asus dual core board, start out with like a gig or two of Kingston DDR2 ECC ram

Cost about $800 before hard drives
Addonics has an awesome hot swap hard drive enclosure that fits into 3 5.25″ bays and holds 4 or 5 drives depending on the model.

and Seagate 400gigs are about $139

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