[olug] Server Motherboard Recomendations.

[Aric]

Not that you need 5 of them but I am betting something like this would be a
good if you are trying to be cheap.  Should be way more than enough power
for a samba box.  You would just need a EATX case a Xeon PSU, a pci sata
card and some HDDs.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220377076276


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Jesse Regier
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:08 PM
To: Olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] Server Motherboard Recomendations.

Ola' Olug,

I will be traveling to Brazil next month to help a missionary friend out 
with a new server at a radio station.  We are planning to setup a  Samba 
server probably on Centos. (5.3 hopefully)  I haven't been in the 
whitebox server game for a while and need some recommendations for the 
the motherboard.   What has been working for you all lately?

This will be their  first Linux box down there and I its a long way to 
go to support it, so I need things to work out of the box.  (No custom 
kernels etc.)

I'm thinking it will probably be a Core2 Duo processor.  ATX 
Motherboard,  2 mirrored SATA drives. (Software raid - don't want a raid 
controller to go bad that they can't get a replacement for.)   The rest 
is pretty flexible.  The key is reliablity. 

We will be replacing an ancient Windows NT 4.0 server.

Thanks,


Jesse Regier






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