Re: hardware for file server

●To: netbsd-users%NetBSD.org@localhost ●Subject: Re: hardware for file server ●From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> ●Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:06:47 +0100


On 11 Jan 2008, at 16:39, Dieter Baron wrote:

 I intend to use 4 750gb hard disks with a raid 5 volume on them.

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- what kind of CPU, at what speed


An Intel Core or Athlon 64 CPU with at least 2GHz should be good enough.

- how much RAM


1GB should be enough but more could help performance.

- hardware raid or raidframe.


RAID 5 in software is slow, especially for writes.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                           http://zhadum.org.uk/

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