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<blockquote data-quote="JorisFRST" data-source="post: 416701" data-attributes="member: 62479">If data is important and sensitive and you want a reasonable uptime ?Buy from HP or Dell, with a 4hr contract, or if money is an issue a nbd contract !What happens when your server goes down in 2 years ? And you can't find the parts anymore to fix it...Also for sensitive information (or important information) Backup to TAPE, daily incremental, weekly full,store used tapes offline (brother takes them home for instance.)Server hardware isn't cheap and good performing raid setups are definately not cheap.Don't go anywhere near software raid, a good hardware raid 5 will be your best choice.If it's only file server get the cheapest CPU with 2gb of memory available for the model that can handle your storage requirements.That's my idea ;-)Forgot to tell that a UPS system (just one of the small APC's) and a double power supply (included in most servers) are a good thing with RAID systems.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JorisFRST, post: 416701, member: 62479"] If data is important and sensitive and you want a reasonable uptime ? Buy from HP or Dell, with a 4hr contract, or if money is an issue a nbd contract ! What happens when your server goes down in 2 years ? And you can't find the parts anymore to fix it... Also for sensitive information (or important information) Backup to TAPE, daily incremental, weekly full, store used tapes offline (brother takes them home for instance.) Server hardware isn't cheap and good performing raid setups are definately not cheap. Don't go anywhere near software raid, a good hardware raid 5 will be your best choice. If it's only file server get the cheapest CPU with 2gb of memory available for the model that can handle your storage requirements. That's my idea ;-) Forgot to tell that a UPS system (just one of the small APC's) and a double power supply (included in most servers) are a good thing with RAID systems. [/QUOTE]

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