Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Nate Duehr said on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:13:48AM -0700:
Agreed on the "as fast a CPU as you can afford" and the 10K RPM disk
comments. However I'm not a huge fan of SATA yet. There's been quite a
bit of discussion on various mailing lists of people having trouble with
them. I'm old-school and would prefer the more expensive SCSI
SCA-connector'ed disks in most of the servers I have spec'ed.
Which lists? I've had a hell of a time with SCSI SCA connected disks; a single
bad SCSI disk can wipe out the whole chain, whereas with SATA that seems to be
less likely. I'd be interested in hearing about SATA ickyness, though; from
what I've seen, it seems like a good thing.
SCA connected disks run through a backplane which should prevent this
happening. I would have also suggested SCSI but it seemed price was an
issue and this would have certainly been expensive when coupled with a
RAID card
I tend to lean toward motherboards with a real serial port on them also,
as you can configure a serial console to come up on one of them and use
that from a laptop or what-have-you when you go to do maintenance
instead of lugging a monitor/keyboard over to it. But they're getting
harder to find.
Not if you get a real server board; the newer Intel based ones have BIOS access
via the serial console. :)
Actually they also have BIOS access via LAN. :-)
Dave
