Ok I am looking to spec out my file server here at the office but had some questions when it comes to SSD RAID Cards and bus speeds.
Right now I'm looking at Supermicro 1155 Mid-tower server with the C202 chipset.
2 (8x) slots with 1 (4x wired 1x) board http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCL.cfm
CPU would be the i2100 series (it's only a file server)
8GB of ECC ram
Cruical/Mushkin 60GB SSD for OS (Server 2008 r2)
M1015 controller (not sure which flash level) RAID 10
4-128GB Samsung 830 SSD's in a istar 5.25 drive bay
2-500gb HDD (Raid 1) installed on the MB chipset to run hourly backups on the OS/Data Drive
Mellanox Infiniband III 10GbE card (8x slot)
I've got a WHS to do major backups and this server does DFS with the home office (so we've got 2 copies of data)
So the question are:
What firmware does the IBM card need to be flashed too?
To spread out the pain, could I just get two drives (RAID 1) and Migrate to RAID 10 without loosing data on this LSI card? - And as I need space can I add a more drives to the RAID 10 array?
The Samsungs aren't set in stone but I was looking for solid SSD's that can live outside the 'trim' environment any other thoughts?
Can the LSI controller (with SATA III SSD's) at least get close to filling the 10GbE pipe or will I hit a bus/CPU limit?
(My workstation is on a 4x wired bus on the other end to my max limit is going to be 5GbE I assume.
Any thoughts from our resident M1015 expert?
Ken
Right now I'm looking at Supermicro 1155 Mid-tower server with the C202 chipset.
2 (8x) slots with 1 (4x wired 1x) board http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCL.cfm
CPU would be the i2100 series (it's only a file server)
8GB of ECC ram
Cruical/Mushkin 60GB SSD for OS (Server 2008 r2)
M1015 controller (not sure which flash level) RAID 10
4-128GB Samsung 830 SSD's in a istar 5.25 drive bay
2-500gb HDD (Raid 1) installed on the MB chipset to run hourly backups on the OS/Data Drive
Mellanox Infiniband III 10GbE card (8x slot)
I've got a WHS to do major backups and this server does DFS with the home office (so we've got 2 copies of data)
So the question are:
What firmware does the IBM card need to be flashed too?
To spread out the pain, could I just get two drives (RAID 1) and Migrate to RAID 10 without loosing data on this LSI card? - And as I need space can I add a more drives to the RAID 10 array?
The Samsungs aren't set in stone but I was looking for solid SSD's that can live outside the 'trim' environment any other thoughts?
Can the LSI controller (with SATA III SSD's) at least get close to filling the 10GbE pipe or will I hit a bus/CPU limit?
(My workstation is on a 4x wired bus on the other end to my max limit is going to be 5GbE I assume.
Any thoughts from our resident M1015 expert?
Ken