[HanoiLUG] (Urgent) File server

[Huan Truong]

Thanks everyone for your very fast suggestions.

Tom, I doubt that normal PC systems of being able to handle 24/7/365
load on them (our company has one PC running as file server for 2
years and it turns out to be unreliable and noisy...). I want
something more solid and reliable because this is the last time I do
"something" for my company.

Chairuou (chairuou at gmail.com) suggested me an FPT elead server. After
seeing all the model, I saw the Elead SP320 model  -
http://elead.com.vn/?id_pproductv=112&lg=vn&start=0 is quite O.K with
an acceptable price. So I will have a whole 160GB system with Raid-1
(yes, the two disks can fail at the same time..., but we'll have
backups every weekend). I mean, it's just ok, because there's no SCSI
drives.

We don't usually write a lot of data on it so I guess weekly backups
or semi-weekly backups is o.k for us.

Any comments on the FPT Elead server?

On Dec 26, 2007 8:31 PM, Tom Lancaster <tom at grubby.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> >
>
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