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Xen Intel Hardware
Posted by GhostR on Sat 7 Jun 2008 at 13:40
I'm planning on buying a new home server to play with xen and VT. It’s not a question about if I need a server like that or not for at home. And no, I won't call HP or another vendor and order a server.
So give me your thoughts because I'm not a real self build server expert.
I m looking at a Xeon 5400 series quad core with 2x2GB Ram, I might run Win2k3 on it too for testing. I want a dual processor board with 6 Sata2 for my existing LVM.
So I m looking at boards with 5000 and 5400 Chipsets and 5100 Chipsets from Tyan and Asus (supermicro seems to expensive, and so does Intel), the 5100 Series boards from tyan look very reasonable plus they save power because they don’t run the fully buffered ram yet. Saving some power would be great.
What brand should I buy and what kind of RAM, is DDR2 2 Channel Registered RAM good enough or should I go with power consuming, state of the art 4 Channel FB RAM? Is 4 Channel so much faster? I want to spend some cash and then run this machine for the next 3-5+ years.
Any thoughts about the RAM is highly appreciated
Toby
So give me your thoughts because I'm not a real self build server expert.
I m looking at a Xeon 5400 series quad core with 2x2GB Ram, I might run Win2k3 on it too for testing. I want a dual processor board with 6 Sata2 for my existing LVM.
So I m looking at boards with 5000 and 5400 Chipsets and 5100 Chipsets from Tyan and Asus (supermicro seems to expensive, and so does Intel), the 5100 Series boards from tyan look very reasonable plus they save power because they don’t run the fully buffered ram yet. Saving some power would be great.
What brand should I buy and what kind of RAM, is DDR2 2 Channel Registered RAM good enough or should I go with power consuming, state of the art 4 Channel FB RAM? Is 4 Channel so much faster? I want to spend some cash and then run this machine for the next 3-5+ years.
Any thoughts about the RAM is highly appreciated
Toby
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why not hp?
Recently I got myself a ml 110 g5 (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-241434- 241646-3328424-3577708.html) which is cheaper than a self made box (€300); it has 6 sata connectors on board (in order to install linux on it, please please connect the sata port 1 to a disk (it is connected to the dvd out of the box and you cannot install anything on it like that - took me 2 days to find out.)
I upgraded it with a areca 1230 raid card and 4gb ram (proliant ram, more expensieve than normal ram) and it absolutely rocks! And you have a proliant at home ;-) (it only makes so much noise during the booting process, then it is really quiet).
Recently I got myself a ml 110 g5 (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-241434- 241646-3328424-3577708.html) which is cheaper than a self made box (€300); it has 6 sata connectors on board (in order to install linux on it, please please connect the sata port 1 to a disk (it is connected to the dvd out of the box and you cannot install anything on it like that - took me 2 days to find out.)
I upgraded it with a areca 1230 raid card and 4gb ram (proliant ram, more expensieve than normal ram) and it absolutely rocks! And you have a proliant at home ;-) (it only makes so much noise during the booting process, then it is really quiet).
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Posted by Anonymous (217.237.xx.xx) on Mon 9 Jun 2008 at 06:55
Way to expensive, when I bring it to the performance what I m talking about it will be more then 1000 USD, including RAM and a Quadcore CPU, and as far as I can tell they also build them with unbuffered registered DDR2 RAM. I will look more into that only to see what vendors build there machines with.
Thanks for the advice tough, I really like HP systems too, I buy them for work.
Thanks for the advice tough, I really like HP systems too, I buy them for work.
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