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<blockquote data-quote="Sandain" data-source="post: 1855885" data-attributes="member: 19306">Hello,We actually have electricity and computers down here in New Zealand!&nbsp; and as it happens in my spare time not role playing i'm a Server/network guy.I apologise if any if these ideas have already been listed - its the basic stuff i'd do when speccing and building a server.Mirror (RAID 0+1) 2 drives for the system drives, thse can be 10k rpm scsi drives since they wont be that busy.Split the App volume and the data volume onto separate sets of other Mirrored drives - since access times are faster by far than RAID 5.&nbsp; get the best SCSI controller that you can and maybe invest in battery backup cache for it in case something bad hapens.&nbsp; I am not sure on block sizes for the disks I stick with standard but thats another way to get more efficiency from your raid sets.2-4 CPU's will be fine, and 4 Gig of Ram should be plenty.&nbsp; Just make sure the box has enough room for expantion.You will use load balanced NIC's? redundant power suppliers and fans?Hrm, 5pm - i'm going home to my Hobbit Hole.Good luck!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sandain, post: 1855885, member: 19306"] Hello, We actually have electricity and computers down here in New Zealand! and as it happens in my spare time not role playing i'm a Server/network guy. I apologise if any if these ideas have already been listed - its the basic stuff i'd do when speccing and building a server. Mirror (RAID 0+1) 2 drives for the system drives, thse can be 10k rpm scsi drives since they wont be that busy. Split the App volume and the data volume onto separate sets of other Mirrored drives - since access times are faster by far than RAID 5. get the best SCSI controller that you can and maybe invest in battery backup cache for it in case something bad hapens. I am not sure on block sizes for the disks I stick with standard but thats another way to get more efficiency from your raid sets. 2-4 CPU's will be fine, and 4 Gig of Ram should be plenty. Just make sure the box has enough room for expantion. You will use load balanced NIC's? redundant power suppliers and fans? Hrm, 5pm - i'm going home to my Hobbit Hole. Good luck! [/QUOTE]

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