Hi,

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Aldo Saavedra wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are thinking upgrading our server for our home directories.. we have t
> wo
> choices
> and I was wondering if anyobdy had experience running SL on either of the
> m..
>
> The first choice is a DELL PowerEdge(TM) 2950 Server.

We're running a couple of those and the corresponding 1950 (which makes no 
difference from the OS's perspective) for a variety of purposes including 
fileserving. All are equipped with the PERC5/i controller and SAS or - 
more recently - also SATA disks.

These systems work well with SL308, SL44, and EL5beta2, no need for extra 
drivers etc. I'd purchase more of these systems without hesitation.

I heard about occasional problems with 1950s with the default SAS5 
controller and SATA drives under SL3. There's a RHEL3 driver update for 
this controller available from Dell, but that's all I know.

Scanning the last few months' archives of the linux-poweredge mailing list
(see linux.dell.com) may give an idea of how linux folks generally get 
along with the hardware.

The 5130 is our current CPU of choice for fileservers as well.

Performance may be better (and should never be worse) with 4x512MB instead 
of 2x1GB.

Hope this helps,
 	Stephan

> The second choice is a computer that is manufacturer by a local company w
> ith
> the following
> features:
>
> - Intel S5000XVN ATX Server Motherboard which has among things a:
> - Intel 5000X Chipset 1333/1066 MHz FSB
> - Dual Intel 82562 10/100/1000 Ethernet
>
> The computer comes with (the significant bits)
> - 2 x Intel Xeon DC 5130 2.00 GHz 4M/1333 CPU
> - 2 x 1 GByte DDR2667 FBDRAM DIMM (2 GByte)
> - Samsung 18x DVD +/RW
> - 1 x Seagate 250 GByte SATAII HDD 7200 rpm 16 MByte (3.0 GByte/Sec)
> - 2 x Seagate 500 GByte SATAII HDD 7200 rpm 16 MByte (3.0 GByte/Sec)
>
> Any opinions and ideas are most welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Aldo
>