On 11 Jan 2008, at 16:39, Dieter Baron wrote:
I intend to use 4 750gb hard disks with a raid 5 volume on them.
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- what kind of CPU, at what speed
An Intel Core or Athlon 64 CPU with at least 2GHz should be good enough.
- how much RAM
1GB should be enough but more could help performance.
- hardware raid or raidframe.
RAID 5 in software is slow, especially for writes. Kind regards -- Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/