<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2007 10:53 AM, Andrew Close <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Nov 19, 2007 9:44 AM, matt lutz <<a href="mailto:myth.matt.lutz@gmail.com">myth.matt.lutz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 11/19/07, Andrew Close <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> > i've been considering migrating from an all-in-one (FE/BE) solution to<br>> > a separate FE, BE (and possibly separate DB) solution for a little<br>> > while now; but i don't have an extra machine to purpose as a dedicated
<br>> > BE.<br>> ><br>> > however, i just came across this deal:<br>> ><br>> > > 1 Dell PowerEdge 2550 1 GHz server with 256 MB of memory<br>> > > - contains QTY=2 18GB internal SCA Ultra-160 SCSI drives
<br>> > > 1 Dell PowerVault 220S disk array<br>> > > - contains QTY=10 18GB SCA Ultra-160 SCSI drives<br>> > ><br>> > > Come with LVD-SCSI cables and 3 power cords. No operating system.
<br>> ><br>> > the PowerEdge is a 1GHz PIII machine, which should be good enough for<br>> > a BE considering all my capture cards are hardware MPEG.<br>> ><br>> > two questions:<br>> > 1) does anyone know the what the availability of SCA Ultra-160 SCSI
<br>> > drives is like? (i haven't Googled yet...)<br>> > 2) would it be stretching this machine to function as a BE running<br>> > comm flagging/transcoding and dealing with HD (when i get there)?<br>
> ><br>> > i think i can pick this gear up for ~$200, which is quite a bit less<br>> > than i was going to spend on a new BE.<br>> ><br>> > thoughts/comments?<br>> ><br>> > thanks!
<br>><br>><br>><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> I think commflagging and definately transcoding will take *forever* on this<br>> box. That's a pretty old box. In my opinoin, you'd be better off buying
<br>> newer hardware with a much faster CPU.<br><br></div>thanks for the reply Matt.<br>i may pick it up anyway for use as a fileserver. only problem i see<br>is availability of drives when they need to be replaced/upgraded.
<br><div></div></blockquote><div><br>That powervault can be used on any box with an external SCSI connector. I'd build a dedicated BE and hook the array to that. It might take two connectors, as some powervaults are split with two separate 5-disk sets. Make one set a RAID 0 array for transcoding and it will fly!
<br><br>Or just sell it all on ebay and buy some SATA disks. That powervault probably goes for good money, and a 500GB mirror is probably more than enough for your needs. Not to mention, Powervaults are LOUD. <br></div></div>
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