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Best Server Platform and Why

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billy_gates:
aren't raid cards only like 40 bucks now adays?

voidmain:
Maybe for IDE RAID. I use SCSI RAID with lotsa cache and SCSI drives, which are much more expensive. But if you go with IDE RAID you need to make sure the card is supported by the Linux kernel (many are), and of course the same is true for SCSI RAID controllers. Check for compatibility at places like this:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ideraid.html

and of course with the vendor of the card's web site, and with the Linux distro you plan on using it.  Software RAID will work on just about any drive combo, even on drives of different type. Do your own research and make your own conclusions as I don't want to say one way over the other. Different people like to do it differently.

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