On Tuesday 27 November 2001 15:20, you wrote: > * Gabe Turner <gabe at msi.umn.edu> [011127 13:49]: > > have a 2500 and a 4400 and are looking to get a few 1550s and a 2550 or > > two. You won't get RAID _and_ gige FX in a 1550 (it's a 1U box so > > there's not enough room, IIRC), but they're available in the others. > > It appears you can put 3 72gb drives, two processors, and a PERC3 raid > controller on a 1550. I see the Intel Pro 1000 NIC, but I dont know if > its fiber or not. With the Pro 1k NIC and 3 drives and raid and 4gb of > sdram its about $500 under $10k. To Follow on what Scott said, we just installed a 1550 at a client an it definately has a RAID 1 environment. Its a mail server (Exchange :-p) and they wanted the mirrored drives. I think its got 32Gb drives in it. I didn't handle the acquisition, just some of the setup. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com