New Company Server

[Khalil]

I finaly got time to build a new server for my company, I have been using an older IBM server that I bought cheap on ebay 2 years back but it was time for it to go. The server is our data center, it holds all our accounting, invoices, inventory etc.. we also take a lot of pictures of everything we make so hard drive space is important. It is built, up and running beautiful. Just wanted to share it's components here in case someone else can use this info in the future.
Any comments or questions are welcome.

TYAN S2927G2NR-E Dual 1207(F) NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 Motherboard

Adaptec RAID 5805 Raid Controller Card

Dual AMD Opteron 2376 Shanghai 2.3GHz 45nm Socket F 75W Quad-Core Server Processor

Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD1601ABYS 160GB System Drive on the native SATA controller

8 x Western Digital RE3 WD3202ABYS 320GB Storage Drives using the Adaptec Controller

4 x Kingston KVR800D2D4P6/4G Totaling 16GB REG.ECC Memory

iStarUSA D-410-B10SA Chassis

FSP Group FSP600-80GHN Power Supply

Sony CD/DVD combo drive

We are installing Ubuntu Server 64 bit, the storage hard drives will be running in Raid 6 for a total of 1.9Terabites.

[glc]

The 5805 is a great controller. I used one to do a 8 drive RAID 5 - 6 drives in array and 2 hotspares, using 1 TB Seagate ES2's. It's using XP64 with the array in GPT. The motherboard is an Asus P5BV-C, the OS is on a mirrored pair of smaller drives on the mobo controller. This thing is strictly a storage server.

If I had to do it again, knowing what I know now, it would have gotten WD's instead of Seagates.

EDIT: If you are having a problem getting Adaptec Storage Manager to install and run under Ubuntu, we have a fix. You need to download version 6.10, and it will use your Ubuntu root login and password. Earlier versions will install, but you can't log in.

[Khalil]

Thanks glc, the Adaptec is working great, we had no issues with it. I am glad I got this done, have had the all the parts other than the hard drives sitting around for about 4 months. Today I am migrating all the data from the IBM. I do use a backup server at home. It uses the Intel P5BV-C you mentioned with a Dual Core Intel C2D E4500 and 4 x 1TB in raid 5 I am using the Raid controller on the Asus. I backup our accounting data, customer data, some of the pictures and 7 days from our IMAP server.