RE: More help with home server upgrade...

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have - but they're all focussed on Xeon systems mostly it seems.

Should I really be looking at Xeon although CPU and m/b are more expensive?

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Stuart Poulton
> Sent: 04 August 2006 12:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] More help with home server upgrade...
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> Paul,
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> Have you checked the 3ware compability tables ? Although I've not yet
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> a
> problem with a 3ware card and motherboard.
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> Stuart
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:33 PM
> Subject: [ukha_d] More help with home server upgrade...
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> Can someone give me a hand speccing up my new server? It's going to be
> running W2K3 R2, Exchange server all the other bits n bobs + 1 TB RAID
5
> file store in hot swap backplane. I currently have a dual 1Gb PIII
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> which is OK but I've never trusted the reliability of compatibility of
it
> and the chipset etc. So probably want to go for a modern board and
CPU.
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> The CPU fan needs to be reasonably quiet and power consumption as low
as
> practical (what with all the HDD's in there!!!). Hence I was thinking
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> Duo on a desktop mainboard (no ECC ram). Should I really be looking at
> something else? I think Xeons are too expensive???
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> This is the list so far but needs a bit of work. I've settled for the
> Compucase rack and Chenbro SATA backplane, WD RE2 HDD's (because they
got
> such good reviews - performance, heat, noise wise) x5 for the RAID 5
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> and 2 x mirrored 160Gb WD RE drives for the O/S.
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> Mainboard     Asus P5WDG2-WS Extreme i975X, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2
800,
> SATA I / II, SATA RAID, ATX scan 1 =A3147.39 =A3147.39
> CPU          Core 2 Duo E6300 dabs 1 =A3106.36 =A3106.36
> RAM             1Gb Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 PC2-5300C5 Dual Channel
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t
> Overclockers 1 =A359.95 =A359.95
> PSU              Existing 20 Pin PSU? =A3-
> Rack case Compucase S411 4U Dabs 1 =A369.41 =A369.41
> SATA backplane Chenbro SK335 SATA Hot Swap Mobile Rack 5 Drive Xcase 2
> =A3109.00 =A3218.00
> CPU cooler Zalman CNPS9500-AT Aero Flower (Socket 775) CPU Cooler
> (HS-020-ZA) Overclockers 1 =A328.95 =A328.95
> SATA RAID card AMCC 3Ware 9590SE-8ML SATA II Hardware RAID Controller
Kit
> 8-port scan 1 =A3319.99 =A3319.99
> HDD 500Gb Western Digital Caviar RE2 500GB 5000YS SATA-II 16MB Cache -
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M
> (HD-102-WD) dabs 3 =A3140.50 =A3421.50
> HDD 160Gb Western Digital Caviar RE 160GB 1600YD SATA-II 16MB Cache -
OEM
> (HD-105-WD) Dabs 2 =A339.02 =A378.04
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> Any server builders out there care to comment on this approach or
anyone
> recommend anything else (mainly CPU / m/b wise)???
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> I'd really appreciate your thoughts as I'm starting to go round in
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s
> now!
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