HI all! I run a small, one man webdesign business where I run my own Suse LAMP server. Currently I have a Amd Duron 1100mhz with 512mb Ram I am looking at upgrading to a new server and I want to run SuSE 9.3 Here are the specs of the machine that I am considering: * *Intel Pentium D - 830, Dual Core 3.0 GHz processor* * 2x 1 MB cache og 800 Mhz system bus * Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology * Intel Sorrento motherboard (i945G chipset) * *2 x 1 GB DDR2 RAM (533 MHz) in Dual Channel Mode* * 2 x Maxtor DM 10, 160 GB, 7200 rpm, 8 MB, SATA * 4-kanals Serial ATA-II 300 controller * Intel RAID Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support * Intel Gigabit LAN med 10/100 Mbit support * Lite-on DVD DL burner * TMP support (Trusted Platform Module, rev. 1.2) * EM64T - Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology What I want to do is run Hardware RAID 1. I haven't tried this before. I don't want to run software Raid because I read that if one of the HD fails then the system won't run until the second HD is replaced. This is what I am hoping to acheive: 2 Harddisk with RAID 1 - full mirror. I hope that should one HD fail that the system will just continue unaffect but with one HD. Is this correct? Do you have any other comments/suggestions about the above hardware configuration?
DanTheMan wrote:
Here are the specs of the machine that I am considering: * *Intel Pentium D - 830, Dual Core 3.0 GHz processor* * 2x 1 MB cache og 800 Mhz system bus * Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology
You seem to take marketing materials too seriously :-) Speedstep will do nothing for you on a server.
* 2 x Maxtor DM 10, 160 GB, 7200 rpm, 8 MB, SATA
I'd much rather buy Seagate and sleep easy at night.
* Intel RAID Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
I believe this card is a rebranded LSI - the exact same card that had me bashing my head against the wall - see earlier threads. Software raid on the onboard controllers should suffice with the type of CPU power you're getting, but if you want hardware raid, get a 3ware card.
* EM64T - Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology
If this was me and if was serious about using 64bit technology, I'd much rather go for the Athlon64 X2 - 64bit and dual core were really last minute add-ons that the Pentium4 wasn't really designed for. There are a few bottelnecks, like communication between the two cores having to travel via the FSB to the Northbridge and back through the FSB, essentially halving the FSB bandwidth and slowing down the whole process. The Athlon64s have this sorted out, and scale much better in 64bit computing if you're going dual CPU/core. There are a lot of articles on the web (Tomshardware and Anandtech are good places to start) documenting this.
What I want to do is run Hardware RAID 1. I haven't tried this before. I don't want to run software Raid because I read that if one of the HD fails then the system won't run until the second HD is replaced.
I think you're thinking of the thread where someone mentioned that the drive device names change. This won't matter with RAID-1, seeing as the content of each drive should be exactly the same. Hans
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