I'm building a 4U/tower for co-location on a 1gbps line. Which case I get will depend on what is cheapest and can accommodate my needs.
The server will be sliced up and resold as various hosting services with a lot of bandwidth being used. I'm looking for a minimum of 20 cores but the more the better. As for harddrives I'll need at least 10TB (using 2tb drives).
The last multi-processing system I built was back in 2003 so I'm a little rusty on what the most cost-effective systems today are. Is it worth using 2 of the 12 core AMD CPUs or should I go for a 4x Xeon motherboard? Where can I pick up cheap components?
Do Opterons still require registered RAM? How about Xeons?
Any recommendations on CPUs/motherboards/RAID controllers/cases would be very much appreciated. I don't have a set budget per-se, but I'm looking to get the most bang for my buck.
The server will be sliced up and resold as various hosting services with a lot of bandwidth being used. I'm looking for a minimum of 20 cores but the more the better. As for harddrives I'll need at least 10TB (using 2tb drives).
The last multi-processing system I built was back in 2003 so I'm a little rusty on what the most cost-effective systems today are. Is it worth using 2 of the 12 core AMD CPUs or should I go for a 4x Xeon motherboard? Where can I pick up cheap components?
Do Opterons still require registered RAM? How about Xeons?
Any recommendations on CPUs/motherboards/RAID controllers/cases would be very much appreciated. I don't have a set budget per-se, but I'm looking to get the most bang for my buck.