Not to mention that with the recent SATA drive sizes to get 1TB of SATA would only take 2 drive. However, if you want to use a multi-channel SATA controller with raid you will want to use smaller drives (like 4 x 300 or 8 X 250) so you don't loose too much capacity to parity.
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From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of RtX Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:53 PM To: Earle Beason Cc: kclug@kclug.org Subject: Re: SATA PT2 I have built quite a few quad-core machines. Mostly AMD, a few Intel. All of them SATA. Recently, I have built 2 RedHat servers for the University of Maryland, all SATA. SCSI is good, no doubt, but expensive. SATA is fast, stable, and cheap and certainly considered and used for server use. On 6/4/07, Earle Beason Earle-Beason@kc.rr.com wrote:
Thanks to everybody who clued me in on what I needed for duel sata, I seen a demonstration computer running a quad core processor with SUSE 10.3 and thought to myself it time to update the server, I already have four IDE drives totaling 750G, on a win98/XP system. that somewhat works and a 40G Sata have been playing around with while learning Linux. The tech wold seems to be leaning heavily toward SATA for future developments, So i figured i might as well go that route for now. If I could afford 1T SCSI HD, I would go that route. but as it my planning is going know, I dumping everything into the processor. I am going to build a new server with the quad core that is just out or is coming out, So far I think I going with the Kentfield processor from Intel, unless the Barcelona (sp?) from AMD seems to better suit me when I get it time to go shopping. The Mobo I saw an Asues that I still checking into. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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