[rescue] FS (historical?) PPro 180 or 200, with VRM

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 10:15:25 CDT 2006


Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Friday 07 April 2006 05:56, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Dan Duncan wrote:
>> I use a quad-processor Pentium Pro 200 w/1MB cache/processor as my main
>> fileserver.  It's pretty sweet.  I have twelve 73.4GB Seagate Cheetahs
>> in it.  Two 6-drive RAID 5's RAID 0'd together.
> 
> Until recently, my NFS server (which did lots of other things) at home was a 
> 4U AlphaPC 164LX with a 600MHz 21164A and 2 trays of 12 x 50GB (1.6") 
> fiberchannel disk hanging off of it.  If it weren't for the *significant* 
> reduction in power bill, I'd still be running that.  I figure it'll take no 
> more than about 6 months to make the power savings pay for the 4 x 300GB 
> drives that replaced those arrays.

I'd love to put four PowerLeap PL-370 upgrades and 12 300GB drives in 
that machine, but I can't afford to right now.  8-(

Peace...  Sridhar



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