[ale] Hardware for a Samba file (and application?) server

[Ben Ostrowsky]

> 4x 36G drives in RAID 5 (Parity), gives you 64G, a hot spare, speed
> someplace the average speed of the RAID 0/1 setup

This sounds like what I want.  I'll just have to set up a data partition
small enough to fit on one DDS4 tape and use the rest for other stuff --
otherwise these guys will definitely fill the disk with PowerPoint
files. :)

>    Reiserfs on top of LVM. (It's a godsend)  Easy to expand LVols & file systems.  Yeah!

Ooo, more HOWTOs to read.  Thanks!

>    DDS is good, that tapes are dirt cheap (compared to DLT).  The drives do suffer (and your backups will suffer) if you don't keep the heads clean.

We clean our drives regularly.  We're a safety girl, so to speak.

> Um, the Tyan Tiger is a good board, but you can't run two 1.4GHz
> Palominos on it.  The Palominos is a Uniprocessor chip.  You need an
> Athlon MP.  Those run at 1G, 1.2 (old die set) and 1.5, 1.6 & 1.8G 

I misspoke.  I meant the Athlon MP 1800+ or 1600+.

Ben


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