| pdxcity 2006-09-16, 1:42 pm |
| I am downsizing a Alpha Tru64 environment and want to keep the smallest
box
I have an DS20E for playing with. Although a lot faster the 4 CPU
ES40's are just
to big, noisy and are power hogs.
I have plenty of disk drives from 18 to 75GB, and have a KZPCC-CA 3
channel
hardware RAID controller left over. There is a couple starlight table
top chassis if
I ever want to RAID up more storage.
Any suggestions on disk layout ? Should I use one of the KZPCC's
channels for
the internal 6 disks ?
How about RAID1 the internal disks as 3 pairs instead of of RAID5 for
performance ?
With the KZPCC any good use for the two SCSI controllers on the mother
board ?
Is there a cheap way to get more the 2GB of ram in a DS20E ?
Other ideas ?
Thanks
-pete
PS There maybe a 8200/4100 cluster with 2 RACK full of disks on EBay
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