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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:50:09 +0100
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Hey!

On 04.03.2012 10:58, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>     1U chassis with 8 2.5" disk bays
>     2x Intel Xeon E5630 Quad-Core / 4x 2.53GHz / 12MB cache
>     8 channel Areca ARC-1880i (PCI Express x8 card)
>       presumably with BBU (can't see it listed at present)
>     2 x 300GB SAS  2.5" disks for operating system
>       (Possibly also 300GB SATA VelociRaptor/10K RPM/32MB cache 
>       RAID 1
>     4 x 300GB SAS  2.5" storage disks
>       RAID 10
>     48.0GB DDR3 1333MHz registered ECC (12x 4.0GB modules) 
> 

Sorry, no answer for your question and a bit offtopic.


Why do you take SAS disks for the OS and not much cheaper SATA ones?


Im currently trying to get some informations together on this.


Regards,
Michi