[Leaplist] New machine build ....

[Ray Brunkow]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> William wrote:  
>   
>> .... I am fixin' to build a new machine at work, Intel i7 based,
>> 12 GB RAM, planning on CentOS 5.3 at the moment.
>>     
>
> Don't forget about Red Hat's "equivalent" of MSDN for $99:  
>   http://www.redhat.com/developer_studio/  
>
>   "Red Hat Enterprise Linux and RHN Access
>   JBoss Developer Studio includes access to Red Hat Enterprise
>   Linux, Linux development tools, and Red Hat Network for
>   development purposes. This enables developers both to build
>   applications directly for the industry-leading Red Hat
>   Enterprise Linux as well as to take advantage of features
>   like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5's built-in virtualization for
>   development environments."
>
> I assume you're not using it as a server, correct?  Just your
> workstation, correct?  If a server, then this really is _not_
> a server board IMPO ...
>
>   
>> The mbd (http://www.newegg.com/Product
>> /Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128374) has an onboard Intel
>> ICH10R south bridge, w/ onboard (F)RAID support.
>>     
>
> If you're going to spend $250-300 on a mainboard with all sorts
> of PCIe x4, x8 and x16 slots, another $1,000+ on CPU + 12GiB
> of RAM (are you sure you can use 6 x 2GiB DDR3?  It may slow
> things down and 3 x 4GiB DDR3 is expensive right now), etc...
> why are you even thinking of considering using FRAID?
>
> Add one of these 4x SAS/SATA, PCIe x8 cards and get real RAID:  
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116065  
>
> If you only have a free PCIe x4 slot (no x8-16), then the older
> 9650SE is an option that only requires an x4 (instead of the
> x8 needed for the 9690SA).
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I have to say I am real glad Bryan piped in on this.  He helped me build 
a web/e-mail/file server a few years back with a real server board and a 
great SATA PCIe x4 RAID card and this thing just runs like no one 
business.  In the past I have played with FRAID and never have been 
happy with the performance.  a real hardware RAID card/board is the only 
way to go for good solid performance.



-- 
Raymond L. Brunkow
5th Degree Black Belt
Certified Instructor
Choong Sil Kwan TaekwonDo Federation


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