Thank you all for humoring this caveman's ponderings. I missed one glaring detail about the V20z; SCSI drives ($$).
I've got about 800GB of data to serve (very infrequent access; mostly just to stream One Piece episodes to my TV on the weekends, so I figured form factor could take priority over a system being tuned for such a job). still, your input has been very helpful, and I may consider one or two of these for other uses (the noise is something I'm prepared to deal with, but thanks for the advice Stuart). -Scott On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Joe McDonagh <joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/10/2010 09:09 AM, Diana Eichert wrote: >> >> I just saw the v20z 4.8 dmesg on ajacoutot@ webpage and >> noticed he was running i386 instead of 64-bit. Curious >> if that is just a preference on his part or an issue >> with running 64-bit O/S on the box. >> >> >> g.day >> >> diana >> > I've had a lot of problems with the amd64 kernel, mostly on HP DL3xx > systems. Very difficult to track down and 100% remediable by moving to i386. > > -- > Joe McDonagh > AIM: YoosingYoonickz > IRC: joe-mac on freenode > "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
