Server and raid setup

Zirax · 17-09-2007, 10:01

Ok, just need people to check through this spec and see if I am missing something. Eventually I will be upgrading my ageing rig. Now seeing as hdds are a long way behind I have come up with the idea of creating to an uber array. Currently I have these in Raid 1
PC
2*300gb - raid 1
2*160gb - raid 1
Server
2*300 - raid 1
1*120gb
The idea is to get a PCIX 4X Highpoint 2310 raid card for £112 and 4* WD 160gb hdds @ 32.36. Looking at the WD over the Seagate hdds as they come with 16mb cache. Now all of these are going to be put into one raid 0 array on my main pc. This is simply for speed. Looking at the reviews it should be around 300mb/sec versus the 120mb/sec ish of my raid 1.
The redundancy for the main pc will be catered for by the server which will now contain 4* 300gb hdds in raid 5. Gigabit connection between the two machines. I will put server 2003 and maybe exchange on there?
I am putting this past you to see if there is something that I have missed. Do you have any recommendations of mail server software that I should look at? Essentially documents and mails will remain on the server and the pc will become a gaming / media machine rather than storing lots of info at the moment.

17-09-2007, 10:01	#1
Zirax Goes up to 11! Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,577	Server and raid setup Ok, just need people to check through this spec and see if I am missing something. Eventually I will be upgrading my ageing rig. Now seeing as hdds are a long way behind I have come up with the idea of creating to an uber array. Currently I have these in Raid 1 PC 2300gb - raid 1 2160gb - raid 1 Server 2300 - raid 1 1120gb The idea is to get a PCIX 4X Highpoint 2310 raid card for £112 and 4* WD 160gb hdds @ 32.36. Looking at the WD over the Seagate hdds as they come with 16mb cache. Now all of these are going to be put into one raid 0 array on my main pc. This is simply for speed. Looking at the reviews it should be around 300mb/sec versus the 120mb/sec ish of my raid 1. The redundancy for the main pc will be catered for by the server which will now contain 4* 300gb hdds in raid 5. Gigabit connection between the two machines. I will put server 2003 and maybe exchange on there? I am putting this past you to see if there is something that I have missed. Do you have any recommendations of mail server software that I should look at? Essentially documents and mails will remain on the server and the pc will become a gaming / media machine rather than storing lots of info at the moment.