Re: server upgrade

[Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

i would go with 320s over 250s right now as last time i looked the
pricepoint was about the same.

booting from external sata should be fine, but you will need to make
sure of the enclosures you get and the connectors all the way around.  i
have seen "external sata" mean standard sata port on the back, and also
mean different style port that includes power.  ymmv.

i personally am a huge fan of 3ware raid cards, but if you are willing
software raid should be just fine.  the few times i have done software
raid i have used a non-raided partition for boot (at the time it was
really about the only real way to do it).

Casey


Mark Bishop wrote:
> I have an old P-II 450 that I'd like to upgrade the filesystem on and
> I am thinking a few different approaches.  I'd like some opinions to
> further my thinking on the matter.
>
> The simplest idea:
> I can get two or three 250G ATA drives to put into the machine and
> perhaps software  RAID them, or not.
>
> The next idea:
> Get three 250G SATA drives and two (2 channel) PCI SATA controllers.
> I'm still limited by the 133MB/sec PCI bus speed, but when I get
> around to upgrading the motherboard/cpu I won't have to get new drives
> to increase speed.
>
> One question: How big of a pain in the butt is it to boot off drives
> attached to external SATA controllers?
>
> The next next idea:
> Get two 250G SATA drives, one (two channel) SATA controller and get an
> ATA system drive.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
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