On 1 Oct 2002, Roger Schmeits wrote: > Greetings: > We are looking to replace out Proliant 3000 server with something new > faster bigger so forth. currently it is running nt 4.0 and are looking > at RH 7.x very strongly. > > > Does anyone have any experience with some of Compaq server & hardware > and what would your recommendation be? > > Main job function will be a file server running Samba. > > What we need 1Gig ram 100Gig of data space. Raid 5 on the data is a > requirement. have lots of expierence with windows & compaq machines and > different raid setups for our servers but weak with raid setups in linux > (am nervous to say the least). Configuring the server is not an issue > just the raid part. > > Does anyone have some good advice on compaq servers? We have about 9000 > dollars in our budget for the machine. >
We have five Compaq DL380 machines, and two Compaq DL380 G2 machines. They've been great, and were easier to install than the Dell PowerEdge 1550 we also have. The DL380s have built-in hot-swap RAID (which we don't use), and Red Hat Linux installs the cpqarray driver needed for the controller. Each has two built-in 100Mb/s NICs. We are using these as compute (login) servers rather than file servers, so I can't comment on that aspect. We will continue to go with the DL380 line at this site for the present. Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
