what i'm saying is, you might look at getting an old p3 or p4 server. Most of them are PERFECT for this, as they come with 2 onboard gigabit nics (or at the very least they have pci-x slots which can take a pci-x dual gigabit intel card, which can be had for 15-20 bucks and are highly compatible)
It might be worth looking at whole servers, the reason i say this is, sometimes, you can find them QUITE cheap, and they have high quality parts, while they may be 2...3 maybe 4 generations behind what you'd buy new, they work very well for this sort of thing. most of the 2u servers hold 6 scsi hard drives. Theres also some non-rackmount dell servers that hold 4 scsi drives which are always cheap. It might even be worth looking at old sparc based servers, if they are cheap enough..
Sometimes you can get good deals.
yeah, ebay is being WEIRD right now.
they had a notice up about it, something wrong with thier backend servers
my NAS uses a raid 1 gmirror of compact flash cards to boot off of. I use ZFS on my actual hard drives. Is that what you mean? if so it's very possible.
It might be worth looking at whole servers, the reason i say this is, sometimes, you can find them QUITE cheap, and they have high quality parts, while they may be 2...3 maybe 4 generations behind what you'd buy new, they work very well for this sort of thing. most of the 2u servers hold 6 scsi hard drives. Theres also some non-rackmount dell servers that hold 4 scsi drives which are always cheap. It might even be worth looking at old sparc based servers, if they are cheap enough..
Sometimes you can get good deals.
yeah, ebay is being WEIRD right now.
they had a notice up about it, something wrong with thier backend servers
belikeyeshua said:It would be nice if I could just use a Flash Card (like an SD card) or a fast USB drive as RAM but my guess is that even if that was possible, it would be much slower than actual RAM (which is 333Mhz in my case).
my NAS uses a raid 1 gmirror of compact flash cards to boot off of. I use ZFS on my actual hard drives. Is that what you mean? if so it's very possible.