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TeeJayHoward

TeeJayHoward

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Right - I don't have the cash. This thing will probably never be built. But, I'm bored, and if you're reading this, you probably are too, so bear with me - Whatdaya think of this?

SuperMicro 743 Chassis
WD 320GB SATA drives x8
Abit AV8 motherboard (Hey, I've already got it. Might as well use it!)
A64 3000+
Gig of Corsair DDR
4-port SATA controller x2

OS - Debian
Samba, FTP, HTTP server - Average one or no users connected :) Maybe two on occasion. Software RAID 5 (Prefer 6 if possible). System will be used for distributing movies - Mounting .ISOs as virtual drives on whatever other machine I'm near at the time.

So talk to me about a setup like this - Can I get more storage space for cheaper? I'm not skimping on that case - It's fsck'n beautiful. There's obviously not a huge strain on it, it's just a personal file server - Yeah... The A64 is overkill. Maybe I'll add in a nice AGP video card and have a midrange gaming setup for if a friend comes over.

And the biggest question weighing in on my mind - 2TB postformat filesystems. ext3 / reiserfs shouldn't have an issue with it, right? Also, about hotswapability - I'm sure that card doesn't support it. I just picked a random cheap card off the 'net. What would be a decent card that WOULD support it?
 
I must not be bored enough to think this out.....

But if I were you, I'd do a little bit of opportunity cost analysis. For the price of that rig, you could build a DC Opteron rig (4 A64's) with less storage in a normal case with a decent-good video card.

If you had the money, which would you rather have-a ton of hard drives to mount iso's on or a ton of computing power to manipulate and use the files?
 
superkdogg said:
If you had the money, which would you rather have-a ton of hard drives to mount iso's on or a ton of computing power to manipulate and use the files?
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TeeJayHoward said:
it's just a personal file server - Yeah... The A64 is overkill.
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I'd obviously want the hard drive space!
 
Hey, different strokes for different folks I guess.

With that setup you can store a butt-load of pRon!

By the time you filled up all that storage, however your 1 GB of ram will be a joke and a new ice age will have befallen the earth. :D

j/k--Have fun if you're able to pull off that beast-let us know how it turns out.
 
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