<html><head></head><body>IMO 4 sata drives aren't going to give much performance for several virtual machines especially database servers with lots of io. If your going to build your own then look at openfiler. <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Dave Hala Jr <dave@58ghz.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif"><br />I was looking for high performance file server for a reasonable amount<br />of money. Consensus is that a home built file server would readily out<br />perform most of the NAS boxes in the under $1500.00 range.<br /><br />On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 17:50 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:<br />> At 05:45 PM 8/17/2011, you wrote:<br />> >So... the question is, if we have a Centos 6 file server, with a <br />> >1gbintel nic and a 3ware 8006-4lp sata controller with 4 or so 1.5gb <br />> >7200sata drives in a raid 5 configuration, does a dual Pentium III <br />> >1.4 ghzmachine with 2gb of ram have enough horsepower for decent performance?<br />> <br />> Performance at what? X windows, probably not, . . file/print, certainly.<br />> <br />> Lee <br />> <br />><hr /><br />> Cialug mailing list<br />> Cialug@cialug.org<br />> <a
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