Hardware Sanity Check

danielparker

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Aug 29, 2010
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Hi,

I am considering building a 1U server for our own use.. It will not be used to host other peoples data.

The hardware I am looking at only has two available drive bays, and using external storage is not really an option.

I am wanting speed to host MySQL and a website running Apache. Likely operating system is CentOS 5.5 64 bit.

As drive bays are restricted, I dont really have the option of running a decent Raid, so I was thinking of using one of these:

OCZ REVODRIVE PCI-EXPRESS SSD:
http://www.ocztechnology.com/produc...revodrive/ocz-revodrive-pci-express-ssd-.html

As my proxmox boot volume and VM storage. Then I would use the drive bays as non raided backup storage etc. I would back up my VM's daily to this.

Am I right in thinking that this would perform better than most raids anyway?

Is this a stupid idea?

The server I am considering is here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101340

And I would be creating two identical nodes.

Daniel
 
To answer my own question, the RevoDrive is not a good idea.. It has issues booting under Linux according to threads on OCZ Forums.