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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello, I am trying to build up a pretty meaty
Asterisk box after doing our initial testing and playing on a 1ghz
system.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Right now I have decided on a prebuilt system which
I normally don't do but thought it seemed like a good deal.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have included the initial specs below, I will be
adding another 1 GB of RAM for a total of 2 GB. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Next and last question is, how many simultaneous
calls do you folks figure I can run on this in the following two
scenarios:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1- All clients would be using SIP devices like
SPA-2000's and all calls would originate/terminate using an IAX termination
partner.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2- All clients would be using IAX like Asterisk or
an IAXy and all calls would originate/terminate using an IAX termination
partner.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here are the specs:</FONT></DIV>
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<LI>Dual (2) Intel Xeon 2.66GHz CPUs w/ HT Technology
<LI>533MHz Front Side Bus
<LI>1GB PC2100 DDR ECC Registered Memory
<LI>Two (2) 120GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drives with 8MB Cache
<LI>52X CD-RW Drive w/Burning Software
<LI>3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive
<LI>ATI Rage XL with 8MB Onboard
<LI>Onboard RAID controller
<LI>(2) Intel Ethernet Controllers (1x1000BT Gigabit & 1x10/100)
<LI>2U Rackmount Chassis w/ 500-Watt Power Supply <BR></LI></UL>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Start Your Own ISP!</FONT></DIV>
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