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 forums.meulie.net can shed some light on it for me…