Hi Everyone,
It's been a while since I've been able to buy new hardware, so I'm a little out of touch and could use a few recomendations...
I'm building a file server for an office of about 40 people. For storage, we're looking at 2x160GB SATA Baracudas on a RAID mirror, and then have a primary drive for the system. This will be running an Intel, so we're looking at either the 875, 865PE, or 865G chipsets, leaning more towards the 865G so we don't have to buy a graphics card. What I've been having a hard time finding anwers to is the best way to set up the hard drives, and what mobo/controller to look for to do so.
I read somewhere a while back (and can't find it now, of course...) that the ICH5R actually does mirroring quite well. I've also seen that the Sil3112 does very well. For cost purposes, we're looking to get a mobo with the mirror capabilities on-board. I'm also new to SATA...can I run a small IDE drive as the system drive, and then setup ICH5R to mirror 2 storage drives? A number of specs I've seen for systems with ICH5R look like they mean to have it used as a striped system for the system drive and that's it.
Another question about SATA...this article over at Tom's Hardware talks about the native command queueing. Will this make much of a difference? We don't have much time to decide on a system, so waiting for new hardware to release is out of the question. Is there any mobos out there that run the Sil3512 or the Sil2114?
Thanks in advance,
John
It's been a while since I've been able to buy new hardware, so I'm a little out of touch and could use a few recomendations...
I'm building a file server for an office of about 40 people. For storage, we're looking at 2x160GB SATA Baracudas on a RAID mirror, and then have a primary drive for the system. This will be running an Intel, so we're looking at either the 875, 865PE, or 865G chipsets, leaning more towards the 865G so we don't have to buy a graphics card. What I've been having a hard time finding anwers to is the best way to set up the hard drives, and what mobo/controller to look for to do so.
I read somewhere a while back (and can't find it now, of course...) that the ICH5R actually does mirroring quite well. I've also seen that the Sil3112 does very well. For cost purposes, we're looking to get a mobo with the mirror capabilities on-board. I'm also new to SATA...can I run a small IDE drive as the system drive, and then setup ICH5R to mirror 2 storage drives? A number of specs I've seen for systems with ICH5R look like they mean to have it used as a striped system for the system drive and that's it.
Another question about SATA...this article over at Tom's Hardware talks about the native command queueing. Will this make much of a difference? We don't have much time to decide on a system, so waiting for new hardware to release is out of the question. Is there any mobos out there that run the Sil3512 or the Sil2114?
Thanks in advance,
John
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