A good low price box is the Gateway 935 it's a 1u server with 5 spindles. 3 Hot swap drives, CD-Rom and floppy. You can get it with the LSI MegaRAID 1600, aka. 493. I have 4 boxes set up with Debian Stable and have been very pleased. A little biased I'm sure!
-----Original Message----- From: Willi Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 5:31 PM To: Debian User Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian + RAID hardware On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:59:27PM -0500, Debian User wrote: [...snip...] > Now (after the crash) they are finally willing to get me a > proper box. I could use some suggestions on what to get. I > don't need more than 1 processor, 1G of RAM is almost a waste, > but what I need are nice, fast, and REDUNDANT disk drives, > preferably hot-swappable. > So anyone who knows of a 2 or 3 U rackmount with a RAID5 > controller with hotswap SCSI that will take debian stable, > please let me know. Or even if you have had good experience > with a RAID controller, I could build it myself, the main > thing I am concerned with is that it does RAID5 and is > supported by stable. > Thanks. Ha, tomorrow I am going to play with a nice Compaq Proliant 1850 :-) with two QFE nics, a Compaq SMART Array controller with two Ultra Wide SCSI 18GiG attached to it (hot-swapable, I think?!?). It has currently only one CPU but is upgradable up to 2 CPU's. I think it supports up to 2GiG SDRAM. It is 3U high. I will report to this list if I had success or not. So far I have managed to boot Debian 3.0 stable from a self made bootable CD, which runs completly in RAM. The Compaq SMART Array controller is supported by the Linux kernel (2.4.X), but I have not yet actually build a RAID. Regards, Willi -- Windows is great, I used it to download Linux. -- Seen on Slashdot (14.01.2000) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
