Cyfr
March 6th, 2006, 04:21 PM
I want to setup a RAID5 server with linux. I havn't decided if I will go with Ubuntu or Gentoo.. or infact any other distro, but lets not go in to that!
I'm lookint at:
AMD64 3200
1Gig 3200 RAM
I don't know which harddrives I should go for...
The motherboard (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=279355) seems to support RAID5. Is this the same as having a RAID5 controller?
That motherboard also supports Raid in Sata2... so would I be better buying 4x http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=154683 (Sata150 Raid edition)
or http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=256891 (Sata300 normal Western Digital harddrive, with an extra 8Mb cache (16 in total)
Any other comments too please! :) (I was gonna post this in the hardware section but it didn't seem relevant because its more an inequiry than a problem with installation :))
I'm lookint at:
AMD64 3200
1Gig 3200 RAM
I don't know which harddrives I should go for...
The motherboard (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=279355) seems to support RAID5. Is this the same as having a RAID5 controller?
That motherboard also supports Raid in Sata2... so would I be better buying 4x http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=154683 (Sata150 Raid edition)
or http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=256891 (Sata300 normal Western Digital harddrive, with an extra 8Mb cache (16 in total)
Any other comments too please! :) (I was gonna post this in the hardware section but it didn't seem relevant because its more an inequiry than a problem with installation :))