Server questions

[Kestryll]

I need a server for heavy database usage, and I'd like some opinions from people who arent trying to sell me something. ;-)

Actually I will be storing, retrieving, and deleting say 10 gigs of tif files a day, feeding and reading 10 files a second at 50k apiece all day.

Needs to be big fast, and most of all reliable.
We cannot have even one file corrupted.

Thoughts between a Win 2003 server and say a Dell PowerVault 770N NAS?

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/pro...s=04&l=en&s=bsd



This is for my office at http://www.pfainc.com/welcome.html

Thanks in advance.

 

[mcveigh]

over my head but ill say you need to look at the fastest disk subsystem first worry about everything else later.

so you are saysing it will have continous send/receive of 5MB /sec???? i guess that's not so bad afteralll

 

[Nothinman]

I would just make sure you have a RAID array with atleast 1 hotspair, 2 if you're really paranoid, 1 or 2G of memory and maybe 512M or more cache on the RAID controller. I also wouldn't use Win2k3, but that's me.

And is that 5M/s each way or total both ways?

 

[Kestryll]

It is 5/M each way.
Win2k3 may not be great but I'd love to get something other than NT4.

 

[skyking]

Nothinman wasProbably suggesting something like Debian, and I would go with openBSD or FreeBSD

 

[dnoyeb]

sounds like the drive is more the issue than the server.

 

[Nothinman]

Am I that predictable? =)

 

[skyking]

Gee, maybe your SIG was a giveaway??