dnar
30th November 2005, 06:49
I built a new Linux fileserver for work the other day (my new work). Thought I would share as I think this represents really good value and performance for money!
Shopping list:
Chenbro Rack case (deep!)
Zippy 3 module Hot-Swap PSU
Intel dual-Xeon mobo with Giga-LAN
2 x Xeon 3.2Ghz 800FSB
2 x 512MB Kingston PC3200 ECC modules
Adaptec 2410SA 4 x SATA II Raid card
Adaptec PCI-X SCSI U160 card (external Sony AIT-3 100GB tape)
1 x 80GB 8MB WD SATA II drive (Linux)
4 x 160GB 8MB WD SATA II drives in RAID 5 (466GB storage)
Hot-Swap RAID cage 4 drive
DVD burner
Spare RAID card
Spare 80GB drive
Spare 160GB drive
Spare PSU module
Fedora Core 4 - Server Install
Total Cost inc. spares AUD$5000.
A similar spec HP server was $10K plus drives @ $800 a drive!
We added a 100GB (260GB compressed) Sony AIT-3 backup drive, these are cool, 12MB/sec write and 55MB/sec read (measured) over Ultra 160 SCSI using the drives hardware compression! The tapes incluse a 64KB memory card built-in to store the index. Way cool and fast.
I have the following services running:
Apache/Bugzilla
Samba
Soon to have LDAP authentiaction and Dovecot mail server cut-over, then it's goodby Small Business Server!!!
Today I built another FC4 server using a Dell dual 2.4Ghz server. This server now sits at the Directors home some 3km away. We commissioned a 802.11g (WPA protected) point to point link to the office. The Dell server runs a 250GB SATA drive with a Blowfish encrypted filesystem. I have written scripts on our main server that SSH into this remote off-line server, mount the encrypted filesystem and "rsync" our main servers data to the off-lien server then close the encrypted filesystem and un-share the mount. Cool, nightly sync with the remote server, if the server is stolen the data is locked up nice and tight (un readable). The disaster recovery plan now sees us tight and safe (unlike previously with Small Business Server and partial on-site backups to 40GB DDS tapes).
Shopping list:
Chenbro Rack case (deep!)
Zippy 3 module Hot-Swap PSU
Intel dual-Xeon mobo with Giga-LAN
2 x Xeon 3.2Ghz 800FSB
2 x 512MB Kingston PC3200 ECC modules
Adaptec 2410SA 4 x SATA II Raid card
Adaptec PCI-X SCSI U160 card (external Sony AIT-3 100GB tape)
1 x 80GB 8MB WD SATA II drive (Linux)
4 x 160GB 8MB WD SATA II drives in RAID 5 (466GB storage)
Hot-Swap RAID cage 4 drive
DVD burner
Spare RAID card
Spare 80GB drive
Spare 160GB drive
Spare PSU module
Fedora Core 4 - Server Install
Total Cost inc. spares AUD$5000.
A similar spec HP server was $10K plus drives @ $800 a drive!
We added a 100GB (260GB compressed) Sony AIT-3 backup drive, these are cool, 12MB/sec write and 55MB/sec read (measured) over Ultra 160 SCSI using the drives hardware compression! The tapes incluse a 64KB memory card built-in to store the index. Way cool and fast.
I have the following services running:
Apache/Bugzilla
Samba
Soon to have LDAP authentiaction and Dovecot mail server cut-over, then it's goodby Small Business Server!!!
Today I built another FC4 server using a Dell dual 2.4Ghz server. This server now sits at the Directors home some 3km away. We commissioned a 802.11g (WPA protected) point to point link to the office. The Dell server runs a 250GB SATA drive with a Blowfish encrypted filesystem. I have written scripts on our main server that SSH into this remote off-line server, mount the encrypted filesystem and "rsync" our main servers data to the off-lien server then close the encrypted filesystem and un-share the mount. Cool, nightly sync with the remote server, if the server is stolen the data is locked up nice and tight (un readable). The disaster recovery plan now sees us tight and safe (unlike previously with Small Business Server and partial on-site backups to 40GB DDS tapes).