[Asterisk-Users] Hardware opinions?

[Me]

Dorn,

 Can you give me some details on this linux md driver you mentioned?

Also, you say not to scrap the SATA drives, is this because you think I can
use them with FC1 or because you think I should try Debian? I really don't
want to venture away from Fedora at the moment for a few reasons.

Thanks!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dorn Hetzel" <asterisk-users at dorn.hetzel.org>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware opinions?


> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:17:47PM -0600, Me wrote:
> > Hello, I am trying to build up a pretty meaty Asterisk box after doing
our initial testing and playing on a 1ghz system.
> >
> > Right now I have decided on a prebuilt system which I normally don't do
but thought it seemed like a good deal.
> >
> > I have included the initial specs below, I will be adding another 1 GB
of RAM for a total of 2 GB.
> >
> > My first question is regarding the serial ATA drives... I will be using
Fedora and considering FC1 seems to be the smartest of the builds when it
comes to the digium hardware, will I have to scrap the SATA drives because
FC1 doesn't support them or do I have bad information?
> >
> > If I need to scrap the SATA drives and let's say I didn't care about the
Raid functionality, would you folks think that IDE drives would be fine or
would the speed of SCSI really make much of a difference when it comes to
Asterisk? If speed of drives does matter, can someone tell me why Asterisk
might need fast drives vs. say 7200 IDE drives?
> >
> > Next and last question is, how many simultaneous calls do you folks
figure I can run on this in the following two scenarios:
> >
> > 1- All clients would be using SIP devices like SPA-2000's and all calls
would originate/terminate using an IAX termination partner.
> > 2- All clients would be using IAX like Asterisk or an IAXy and all calls
would originate/terminate using an IAX termination partner.
> >
> >
> > Here are the specs:
> >
> >   a.. Dual (2) Intel Xeon 2.66GHz CPUs w/ HT Technology
> >   b.. 533MHz Front Side Bus
> >   c.. 1GB PC2100 DDR ECC Registered Memory
> >   d.. Two (2) 120GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drives with 8MB Cache
> >   e.. 52X CD-RW Drive w/Burning Software
> >   f.. 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive
> >   g.. ATI Rage XL with 8MB Onboard
> >   h.. Onboard RAID controller
> >   i.. (2) Intel Ethernet Controllers (1x1000BT Gigabit & 1x10/100)
> >   j.. 2U Rackmount Chassis w/ 500-Watt Power Supply
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> You don't need to scrap the SATA drives, they are very nice.
> You might want to give Debian a try.
> Don't use the "RAID" mode on the motherboard as it's likely
> "fake raid", instead use linux md driver for software raid,
> it's smoking fast for SATA drives and on my 3.2ghz box
> barely scratches the CPU resyncing.
>
> -Dorn
>
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