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Server upgrade suggestions.

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Vicken

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I just got a used Netpower Symantra RAQ which is a 4U Rackmount Dual PPRO server for $95.00. OMG is it sweet! The rackmount case is standard ATX!

Yes I know, unbelievable, I got a rackmount case and I can put any standard ATX mobo in the future. 😉 But anyway, lets get to the point.

The system is composed of

one ppro 200 mhz 512k processor (gonna make it dual) Hey why not.
four 4.35 GB UW 7200 RPM SCSI (system holds 4 drives max)
1.44 floppy
no CDROM (I need to get one)
onboard NIC and Adaptec 7880 UW scsi. (not raid unforunately)
also has a 4mb matrox millenium. (ahhhh good times!)

I was thinking about running NT4 sp6. However, I would love to learn Freebsd. I am using redhat right now on another computer, and don't like it cause it installs too much crap. 🙁 I want the OS to be slim and I know both NT4 and Freebsd are as slim as they get.

This system is going to be a network file server and back up server overnight. It will hold gigs of files. The server is going in my house so I will only have max 4 people accessing it at one time.

This is the problem. I want a raid setup in case one of the drives fail, but the 4.3gb UW drives are small. Only 8.7GB max with software raid 5.

I really couldn't afford newer scsi drives. Its $76 for just 9GB compared to 40GB IDE for same price and I need loads of space.

I could get rid of the scsi drives and get four 40gb IDE drives and Raid 0+1 with a promise controller. That gives me 80GB free space! Problem, this is a ppro we're talking about here, like 1995. Does the promise raid card has its own BIOS? Will it work on older systems?
 
RAID is overkill for most home situations. Unless you've got something really important on those drives, you'd get better utilization by throwing a cheap IDE drive on the network somewhere and just backing up the SCSI drives to the IDE periodically. You should be able to get a 40GB IDE drive for about $80. You'd be able to avoid the hassle of the RAID setup and you'd still have full backup capability.

If you're determined to go with RAID, RAID 5 should give usable capacity equal to three of the four drives, so you'd have a bit over 13GB of usable space.
 
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