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Unread 08-15-2012, 12:03 PM   #6
Phoenix32
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Default Re: Introduction & A Few Questions

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Originally Posted by Zavyre View Post
A Fourth question ... RAM Upgrade ... Seems that I don't have any PC2100/2700 ECC REG RAM in my surplus compy crap boxes. And with 1 GB sticks @ ~$19 it would not cost much to max out the memory. The question is would I see much if any improvement with only 4 computers accessing the server. Mainly just streaming music or video.

I remembered the 3rd question; it was advice on the raid setup. Basically to use raid 5 with a spare or 6; as if I need to replace any drives I'm just going to convert it to SATA.
You do get some gains with 2GB RAM, but anything beyond that is diminishing gains IMO.

I am not a fan of RAID 6 in a 4 drive setup. IMO RAID 6 is for larger arrays. If you want the extra redundancy in a 4 drive setup, I would say RAID 10 would be better. You get the same space as the RAID 6 and better performance, and far less work on the CPU doing all that parity.
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6 x Snap 4400 (SATA Converted)
2 x Snap 4500 (SATA Converted)

1 x Snap 110
5 x Snap 410
3 x Snap 520

2 x Sanbloc S50

Drives from 250GB to 2TB (PATA, SATA, and SAS)

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