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- Mar 28, 2004
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- Philadelphia
This is my third server build contract and I'm still not familiar with a wide variety of server hardware and I have to make decisive purchases since most orders are above 5K.
My dilemma,
I have following already
2xOpteron 280
Areca 1230
16x Seagate 7200.9 (6 Arrived Yesterday waiting on 10 more )
I plan to order three things by Nov 1st, they need at least 8GB of RAM so I am going with Crucial ECC 2GB Modules on newegg which are DDR 400. The motherboard thats fitting the build is Asus K8N-DRE but there is barely any information on it regarding memory configurations. Anyone know what speed I can run the memory at? and what configuration i would need? It's best they have 16GB but that is expensive (contract...less expensive = more for me) and 8GB might be faster (i dunno).
Also, I plan to get the Supermicro SC933T case with 15SATA cartriges but I'm not sure the power supply can handle 15 HD's and the motherboard and RAM. Anyone have a clue? How would i attach an auxilliary power supply?
About the Broadcom 5721 pcie controllers, the max aggregate bandwidth is 500MBps but they say it should transfer out about 300MBps max and accepting 200MBps (the figures they gave me) through up to 6 ports. I only have 1 133MHz PCI 32bit slot on the mobo and I wonder if that's enough for handling the traffic with an additional network adapter (suggest one?).
Any help or info appreciated. very important to me. Thanks.
My dilemma,
I have following already
2xOpteron 280
Areca 1230
16x Seagate 7200.9 (6 Arrived Yesterday waiting on 10 more )
I plan to order three things by Nov 1st, they need at least 8GB of RAM so I am going with Crucial ECC 2GB Modules on newegg which are DDR 400. The motherboard thats fitting the build is Asus K8N-DRE but there is barely any information on it regarding memory configurations. Anyone know what speed I can run the memory at? and what configuration i would need? It's best they have 16GB but that is expensive (contract...less expensive = more for me) and 8GB might be faster (i dunno).
Also, I plan to get the Supermicro SC933T case with 15SATA cartriges but I'm not sure the power supply can handle 15 HD's and the motherboard and RAM. Anyone have a clue? How would i attach an auxilliary power supply?
About the Broadcom 5721 pcie controllers, the max aggregate bandwidth is 500MBps but they say it should transfer out about 300MBps max and accepting 200MBps (the figures they gave me) through up to 6 ports. I only have 1 133MHz PCI 32bit slot on the mobo and I wonder if that's enough for handling the traffic with an additional network adapter (suggest one?).
Any help or info appreciated. very important to me. Thanks.