1 May
2002
1 May
'02
12:06 a.m.
I am looking at building a high reliability, fault tolerant file server to store 300 plus GB worth of files. Reliability is needed b/c a sysadmin will not always be around/on-site to ensure full backups are made regularly. I am assuming RAID 5 array, for data and seperate drive(s) for OS (RH 7.x), redundant power supplies. Any suggestions (voice of experience) on: - Motherboard/CPU combo's - Server Cases - RAID host cards (3ware-IDE, Mylex-SCSI) - High(er) MTBF IDE, SCSI Hard drives (I don't want another 60/75GXP fiasco) <g>. - Tape drives (DLT, DAT, etc)
Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.
Brock