[HanoiLUG] (Urgent) File server

[Tom Lancaster]

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 14:31 +0700, Huan Truong wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am about to buy a new file server for my company, but I have no past
> experience on buying one.
> 
> Can you suggest me a reliable and cheap one *and where to buy it in
> Hanoi*, storage requirement is ~100GB or more, RAID 1 configuration. I
> am going to run Debian on it. As I am about to leave Vietnam in the
> next 10 days so I need your suggestions asap. A rack mount server is
> nice but a tower one is OK.


I put together one from parts on the shelf at Tran Anh computer -
trananh.com.vn

3x 500GB SATA drives (2x for RAID 1 + 1x spare / backup), ~$80 CPU, 2GB
RAM. You could do it much cheaper by using 250GB drives, but 500GB are
great value for money.

If space is not a constraint I wouldn't bother with a rackmount.
Similarly I wouldn't bother with SCSI drives unless money is no object.
If you have extra cash to burn spend it on RAM, given what JC says about
caching.

The kids at Tran Anh seem to know their cases and power supplies pretty
well, and I have no complaints about the box so far (running as a samba
server for an office of 20 people). Uptime is 100+ days since I trained
them not to power cycle it when the DSL line goes down :)

Tom
> Thanks everybody.
>