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Originally posted by RoSs_bg2_rox:
Nice Thoran. I have an XP2400 aswell, which I am currently typing on, and a couple of P2s. I'm trying to get my hands on a PIII for a Linux server project, just waiting on an email back.
That's quite a lot of disk space you've got there... What drives have you got in your RAID 5 machine?
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I have an old P2-450 I've been playing with linux on, but it's too old to do much with (other than tinker)... although Linux runs quite nicely on it.
The Boxxtech system has 4x250gb Western Digital 7200 rpm Caviar SATA drives in a Supermicro hot swap chassis connected to a RaidCORE PCI-X controller. The OS array in that system is a pair of Seagate Cheetah 72GB 15krpm U320 SCSI drives running in a RAID0 configuration on an Adaptec 3920A PCI-X controller. I got the two different controllers primarily to evaluate if SCSI was worth the extra cost. The SCSI array is very fast, but isn't worth the money outside of a server environment IMO (the 140Gig SCSI array with 2 70GB drives cost a lot more than the terrabyte SATA array with 4 250GB ones).