DeepSparklePupa
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I?ve acquired a Dell PowerEdge 1300, rough specs are:
Dual P3 500s
512mb SDRAM
LSI MegaRaid Enterprise 1200 RAID controller, dual-channel
3 IBM Ultrastar 18ES 9.1gb SCSI HDDs
2 Intel 10/100 NIC
Onboard RadeonII video, 2mb
A gaming rig is out.
I?m thinking of setting it up as a server with a few tasks:
(1) File/Print Server
(2) Web Server
(3) RtCW Server ? the major limitation would be upload bandwidth
(4) Roger Wilco Host
(5) Firewall
I?ve already got my Solaris rig running on an old Athlon/K7M, so I?ll likely install Win2k Server on the dualie, run IIS with Cold Fusion Server, and install Oracle 8 to interface with my Unix apps.
I?m torn over how to set up the RAID array. Currently, I have fairly decent fault tolerance on my main gaming rig (?da SuperPooba), with nightly backup to tape of critical data and a ghosted OS partition. The RAID array on the server will not be terribly fast with 40 mb/sec max on each channel. My first inclination is to damn the torpedoes and configure all three in RAID 0 for maximum speed. Alternatively, I could set one drive apart and use the other two in RAID 1 for maximum fault tolerance. Honestly, 9.1 GBs will fill my needs two year forward.
-DSP
Dual P3 500s
512mb SDRAM
LSI MegaRaid Enterprise 1200 RAID controller, dual-channel
3 IBM Ultrastar 18ES 9.1gb SCSI HDDs
2 Intel 10/100 NIC
Onboard RadeonII video, 2mb
A gaming rig is out.
I?m thinking of setting it up as a server with a few tasks:
(1) File/Print Server
(2) Web Server
(3) RtCW Server ? the major limitation would be upload bandwidth
(4) Roger Wilco Host
(5) Firewall
I?ve already got my Solaris rig running on an old Athlon/K7M, so I?ll likely install Win2k Server on the dualie, run IIS with Cold Fusion Server, and install Oracle 8 to interface with my Unix apps.
I?m torn over how to set up the RAID array. Currently, I have fairly decent fault tolerance on my main gaming rig (?da SuperPooba), with nightly backup to tape of critical data and a ghosted OS partition. The RAID array on the server will not be terribly fast with 40 mb/sec max on each channel. My first inclination is to damn the torpedoes and configure all three in RAID 0 for maximum speed. Alternatively, I could set one drive apart and use the other two in RAID 1 for maximum fault tolerance. Honestly, 9.1 GBs will fill my needs two year forward.
-DSP
