On 08/11/2011 03:38 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Digimer<linux at alteeve.com> > >> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-4237917-4248009.html > > It looks quite nice, although a tiny bit too big for me (no real need the room for 4 HDs + 1 HD or DVD). > Saw that one guy was able to install a Smart Array P410 with 512MB BBC too (too bad the drives are not hot-plug). > And there is a remote management optional card (if it fits along the P410) which is great since I have no monitor at home. > Just wondering how noisy 23dbs are... I tend to be very sensitive to noise, especially at night. > > > From: Emmett Culley<emmett at webengineer.com> >> Check out the Supermicro X7SPA and X7SPE motherboards. >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-H-D525.cfm >> I am running CentOS 5.6 and CentOS 6 x86_64 on them. > > The fake raid says "RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support (Windows Only)"... did you install a RAID card? > Did you find a nice low profile/noise case for it? > > > Thx, > JD I use Linux software raid, and never hardware raid :-) I use this case for most of our deployments: http://www.casetronic.com/product_d.php?id=0000000078 Though I am testing with this one now, as it supports two hard drives and has room inside for an and-in card. http://www.casetronic.com/product_d.php?id=0000000071 Emmett