Server spec check please

babyface uk · 12 Mar 2007 at 20:48

Hi guys

A server spec check on the below

Symantec Norton Internet Security Suite 2007 - OEM £17.99
(£21.14) £17.99
(£21.14)
Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Silver) £68.99
(£81.06) £68.99
(£81.06)
Intel Core 2 Quadro Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £479.99
(£563.99) £479.99
(£563.99)
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 NCQ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A32727) £25.99
(£30.54) £103.96
(£122.16)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £99.99
(£117.49) £99.99
(£117.49)
BFG 800W UK/PFC Approved PSU £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
Adaptec AAR-1430SA PCI-Express x4 4-Port SATA-II RAID Controller £65.99
(£77.54) £65.99
(£77.54)
Abit AB9 Quad GT (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £89.99
(£105.74) £89.99
(£105.74)
APC Smart-UPS 1500VA USB/Serial 230V £199.99
(£234.99) £199.99
(£234.99)
OcUK Value Hanns-G HC174D 17" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black £87.99
(£103.39) £87.99
(£103.39)
BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7300 LE Turbo Cache 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Asus DRW-1608P3S 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - Retail £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (E85-04026) £79.99
(£93.99) £79.99
(£93.99)
Microsoft Office 2003 Basic Edition - OEM £102.99
(£121.01) £102.99
(£121.01)

Any problems with my choice of mobo/cpu/ram and raid card ( or anything else )?
want to know if the raid card will work with that mobo ( has it got the right amount and typr of slots free? )
Your thoughts please

Babyface UK

edit changed psu

masslac · 12 Mar 2007 at 21:14

Looks totally overkill for a home server to me. What exactly will you be using it for?

babyface uk · 12 Mar 2007 at 21:16

masslac said:
Looks totally overkill for a home server to me. What exactly will you be using it for?

work server

, plus some folding on the side

masslac · 12 Mar 2007 at 21:19

In that case it looks great, but I'd swap Norton for either Kaspersky or NOD32 and think about getting a 19in monitor seeing as it'll only cost about £30 more.

Edit - The 7300 cards suck. Look at the 7600GT or even try to find something like a 6800GS.

Trigger · 12 Mar 2007 at 21:31

masslac said:
In that case it looks great, but I'd swap Norton for either Kaspersky or NOD32 and think about getting a 19in monitor seeing as it'll only cost about £30 more.

Edit - The 7300 cards suck. Look at the 7600GT or even try to find something like a 6800GS.

For a server?? A 6200 would be more than fine!

To the OP: You do know that XP Pro has a limit of 10 on its concurrent connections right?

babyface uk · 12 Mar 2007 at 21:53

Trigger said:
For a server?? A 6200 would be more than fine!

To the OP: You do know that XP Pro has a limit of 10 on its concurrent connections right?

would be looking at 7-8 connections atm, some of the software only runs on 2000 /XP ( no linux or vista ) - thats great accounting software for you

any other problems with the hardware side?

ta

Babyface UK

edited for some god awful spelling

babyface uk · 12 Mar 2007 at 21:56

masslac said:
In that case it looks great, but I'd swap Norton for either Kaspersky or NOD32 and think about getting a 19in monitor seeing as it'll only cost about £30 more.

Edit - The 7300 cards suck. Look at the 7600GT or even try to find something like a 6800GS.

can't let the staff have nice monitors now can we

As for norton, i'm just looking for anything thats easy to set up then leave and lets me specify which ip addresses on the internal network to let access.

I only put norton as i've had no problem sin the past with it.

Babyface UK

rpstewart · 12 Mar 2007 at 21:59

Why do you want to add an extra RAID card to a machine with 6 internal SATA ports when you only have 4 disks? The Adaptec card also doesn't support RAID5 if that was your plan.

masslac · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:03

babyface uk said:
I only put norton as i've had no problem sin the past with it.

Babyface UK

I'd personally do without. I hate it that much.

(I don't use any anyway tbh.

)

tsj · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:04

masslac said:
I'd personally do without. I hate it that much.

(I don't use any anyway tbh. )

Lol... me too i've got no firewall and no anti-virus either

babyface uk · 13 Mar 2007 at 07:24

rpstewart said:
Why do you want to add an extra RAID card to a machine with 6 internal SATA ports when you only have 4 disks? The Adaptec card also doesn't support RAID5 if that was your plan.

extra raid card for ease of swapping out if it goes wrong - just swap raid card not mobo.

will run a mirrored raid on each pair of disks, 1 pair for local o/s plus drivers etc... and one pair for data for network - should mean no downtime due to broken disk. also keeps local disk access away from the network disk access and should speed up both.

Babyface UK

babyface uk · 13 Mar 2007 at 11:18

going to order in a moment,

any more problems guys?

Babyface UK

BoomAM · 13 Mar 2007 at 13:56

I'd wack Server 2K3 on it personally.

daz · 13 Mar 2007 at 14:15

You might want to look at OEM machines from the likes of Dell.