SuperMicro 5013

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:

> Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, the lack of a workable RAID with Linux, problems with (primary 
>>> application) Pick reporting illegal activation after cold starting the 
>>> server and lack of redundant hot swap power supplies has the SuperMicro / 
>>> Visionman back in the box waiting for an RMA.    I think it was designed 
>>> more as a Windows machine and as an afterthought claimed to run Linux. 
>>> Anyone have a suggestion for a quiet, cool running machine, hot swap hard 
>>> power supplies and hard drives with hardware RAID (preferably compatible 
>>> with RH9 as primary app will not be supported under any release of Fedora 
>>> Core)?
>> 
>> 
>> there is no motherboard I'm aware of with an ata or sata hardware 
>> raidcontroller. (I have a couple compaq ml380's with compaq smart array 
>> controllers on the motherboard but those are scsi).
>> 
>>> The budget allows for only $1,400 US.
>> 
>> 
>> serial-ata is not well supported in redhat-9. rhel-3 actually has quite 
>> good serial-ata support for something still built on the 2.4kernel.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
> I like SCSI, all my servers run SCSI, this was my first exposure to SATA.

Almost all our new boxes are sata, between promsise sata 150 tx8 
controllers (non-raid sata), 12 port 3ware 9500s, and fibre-channel-sata 
raid enclosures, there's a continium of connection options now, and the 
disks are denser and cheaper.

> How is the noise level with the ML380?  I am currently working with Proliant

the ml380 is quiter than the dl380, they're both pretty lound

> (old) 5000R, 6400R, 6500R and DL760 units and the noise from the fans is too 
> much to ask someone to have in a small office environment.

I generally try and avoid sharing space with the servers except when I'm 
initially building them.

>

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