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What do you need the HDDs for? Mostly just storing files or stuff like databases? WIll it be running 24/7?
for 2 hdds it is probably not worth getting a card, software raid should work. You can also only do mirror or stripping.
In case of mirroring you have half the capacity but 100% redundancy and in case of stripping you have some performance increase but 2 times more likely to lose the data, and if you lose it, it will be really lost in most cases.
If you want a real raid, get 3 hdds at least, from 4 it starts to look more like it.
M
Two good, solid drives on RAID1 is fine, but 4 on RAID10 is a lot better. If you're building a vps node I suggest the latter as the bare minimum.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Raid 1 has the same redundancy as Raid 10?
It's not a production server, but it would be online 24/7. Storing files, small databases. Basically, it's going to have websites and a Minecraft server on it. As I said, it's not for production.
I just want the make/model of some solid HDDs, and some software raid options please
Cheers,
Dominic
@MrLadoodle Yeah, just not the performance.
I'd recommend linux software RAID1 for this, with WD RE4 or Seagate Constellation drives. They're not that much more than consumer drives, and they're actually designed for 100% uptime.
Thanks, any others? They're slightly more than I want to spend, as it's not a production server to be honest.
Doesn't matter whether its production or not, they're designed to be running 24/7 so its best to get them and have a lower failure rate than to get consumer drives and have a higher failure rate, whether production or not data loss is data loss.
I would highly recommend going with the drives Damian listed, the extra cost will be worth it.
Probably Hitachi Ultrastars: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145434
Added them to my basket and saved everything as a quote. How does this look?
i.imgur.com/vupQX.png
Is the mainboard included in the chassis? o0
yes looks like it?
Multiple things here:
-A cse-510t-203b chassis does not include a motherboard (even though it looks like it)
-Those hard drive trays are 2.5", not 3.5". Which means you're using either laptop hard drives, or extremely expensive SAS drives.
-You're buying a retail-boxed CPU, which includes a fan and heatsink which are way too big to fit into a 1u case. The chassis you've chosen does not include a heatsink, so you'll have to find one that fits in a 1u case.
(edit) What's your budget?
OK, that's that out the window. What about Dell's R210 II, what are peoples thoughts?
dell.com/uk/business/p/poweredge-r210-2/pd?oc=svr210ii&model_id=poweredge-r210-2
I like that better. Only comes with 2gb of ram, so make sure you spend some $$$ to upgrade that.
Would I need more though? Their RAM is nice and expensive :P
A minecraft server will eat 2 gb of ram for breakfast and come galloping back for more...
It's easier to add the memory to begin with also, worth having more than you need.
Not if I set it to run at 512MB-1GB like I've done in the past ;-)
Yea, hmm...