On 02/18/2011 10:52 PM, Jim Green wrote:
I think I'll probably do this,
4x2T drive in desktop and use a external closure for backup(because I
am using mirroring, disk failure should be ok though). and I'll be
using soft raid to avoid hardware raid card.
Have you thought about security? If your database contains
confidential, personal, etc., information, it's easy to encrypt your
partitions with dm-crypt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-crypt
A processor with AES-NI extensions is desirable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-NI
Beware that Intel's newest desktop chipsets (H67 and P67) have problems
with the SATA ports:
http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/01/chipset_design_flaw.php
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/31/intel-identifies-chipset-design-error-implementing-solution
"The company expects to begin delivering the updated version of the
chipset to customers in late February and expects full volume recovery
in April"
If you can wait, I would. If not, then the choices would seem to be
prior-generation desktop chipsets or current workstation/ server chipsets:
http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/index.htm?iid=desk_nav+chip
http://www.intel.com/products/server/chipsets/index.htm#s1=Workstation&s2=all&s3=all?iid=chipsets_body+workstation
> Thank you both!
You're welcome. :-)
David
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