New build project: Linux & Windows 7 dual-boot desktop (64-bit)

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Jan 032010
 

Starting soon (when the parts arrive from Amentio):

Time to build a new system… :-)

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Sep 302008
 

Yup, it’s that time of the year again. I’ll just ignore that the financial situation of this planet is going down the crapper at top speed and will invest a substantial amount of $$$ into a new Linux server. Main requirements:

  • quiet. The box is standing under my desk, and I do not want to be able to hear it.
  • plenty of storage. A couple of 1TB drives should take care of that.
  • failover. The aforementioned drives will be configured as… RAID5? RAID10? Not sure yet…
  • powerful enough to run several VM guests at the same time, so a good quad core CPU & plenty of RAM.

I think I have finally worked out the components line-up:

CPU

Intel Q9550

Cabinet

Antec Mini P180 black

HDD

Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB x4

CPU cooler

OCZ Vendetta 2

PSU

Corsair VX 450W

Motherboard

ASUS P5Q-VM

RAM

OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 “P45 Special” Vista Upgrade 16GB Quad Kit
I am sure it will also function with a non-Vista system…

These parts should add up to a pretty cool beast… ;-)
The OS will most likely be (Gentoo) Linux with VMware, VirtualBox or KVM. Both the new releases of VMware and VirtualBox look promising, but I still lean towards KVM… Perhaps www.virtualmachineforums.info can shed some light on it for me…

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