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Okay so I've needed a "workstation" for a while, something that'll be accessed remotely but is a reasonable "data munching" box.
So I've ordered the bits (finally!) and the spec is a reasonable
AMD Phenom X3 @2.3Ghz
8 GB DDRII 1066
6.5 TB available via SATA II drives (all at 7200 RPM)
BluRay ROM drive (no idea why I bought that for a server!)
Basically I'm looking or advice on what to put on it, and how to set it up. Mainly it'll be used as a "pro" workstation or development / data processing (so lots of perl scripts running through large files, some Java dev with Eclipse, and possibly backing up my other machines).
I was thinking of putting the latest (testing - Lenny) release of Debian on it as the main OS (64 bit variant so it can access all 8GB). But also having XP / Vista virtualised. Also I want to have a couple of other linux machines virtualised so I can have a cluster (no more than 4 nodes) to play about with paralell programming.
Is Debian the best bet for this type of project? What performance impact would having RAID 0 (that's the mirroring one right) have for general server / data processing tasks have?
So I've ordered the bits (finally!) and the spec is a reasonable
AMD Phenom X3 @2.3Ghz
8 GB DDRII 1066
6.5 TB available via SATA II drives (all at 7200 RPM)
BluRay ROM drive (no idea why I bought that for a server!)
Basically I'm looking or advice on what to put on it, and how to set it up. Mainly it'll be used as a "pro" workstation or development / data processing (so lots of perl scripts running through large files, some Java dev with Eclipse, and possibly backing up my other machines).
I was thinking of putting the latest (testing - Lenny) release of Debian on it as the main OS (64 bit variant so it can access all 8GB). But also having XP / Vista virtualised. Also I want to have a couple of other linux machines virtualised so I can have a cluster (no more than 4 nodes) to play about with paralell programming.
Is Debian the best bet for this type of project? What performance impact would having RAID 0 (that's the mirroring one right) have for general server / data processing tasks have?