[mdlug] New Server - Hardware Configuration

[Garry Stahl]

> It's time to upgrade the old servers here at the office.
>
> Here's the plan:
>
> Matched pair of HDs for the Main OS Drive. These will be mirrored.
>
> Matched Pair or two matched pairs of drives for Filesharing. These will be
> mirrored.
>
> Separate RAID Card that supports Hot Swap on Linux to allow for two to three
> removable drive bays that will be used to duplicate the entirety of the
> mirrored data drives.
>
> I have a quote from Dell for a server that uses their Linux Compatible RAID
> cards. Right now, they are quoting three RAID Cards. The onboad card that
> the OS will be booting off of, a second card that will be for the data
> drives and a final card that won't be setup as RAID, which means that it
> won't/shouldn't crap out the kernel while supporting hot swapping.
>
> Thoughts? Opinions?
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