So I was building myself a dedicated server.
I used the following parts:
-2U case
-250W Lite-on PSU from an HP
-c_hegge's favorite motherboard
-Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz CPU
-PCI SATAII RAID Card (this one, but I go it used for $5: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124003 )
-2x WD Scorpio Blue, one 500GB, one 640GB, in RAID 1, yes I only had 500GB capacity but I don't mind.
Now, Neither Ubuntu Server 12.04 nor Debian would install on it. So I (with many regrets) installed Windows Sever 2008 R2 on it (I used a Flash Drive for the RAID drivers during the install)... that worked fine, just took fucking FOREVER...
I ran an HDTune benchmark showed why - my disk throughput was shit and was going up and down crazy, and my seek time was like 30ms.
Now, what could be causing this? Mismatched HDs? They're the same models except for different capacities, and one came out of my lenovo laptop (640) and one brand new (500)...
At this point I hate this server with a passion and am going to use the Dell PowerEdge with the nVidia chipset because at least it fucking works!!!
If we don't get this figured out soon I will just use the Dell.
P.S. bonus points c_hegge for figuring out which motherboard is in the 2U.
I used the following parts:
-2U case
-250W Lite-on PSU from an HP
-c_hegge's favorite motherboard
-Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz CPU
-PCI SATAII RAID Card (this one, but I go it used for $5: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124003 )
-2x WD Scorpio Blue, one 500GB, one 640GB, in RAID 1, yes I only had 500GB capacity but I don't mind.
Now, Neither Ubuntu Server 12.04 nor Debian would install on it. So I (with many regrets) installed Windows Sever 2008 R2 on it (I used a Flash Drive for the RAID drivers during the install)... that worked fine, just took fucking FOREVER...
I ran an HDTune benchmark showed why - my disk throughput was shit and was going up and down crazy, and my seek time was like 30ms.
Now, what could be causing this? Mismatched HDs? They're the same models except for different capacities, and one came out of my lenovo laptop (640) and one brand new (500)...
At this point I hate this server with a passion and am going to use the Dell PowerEdge with the nVidia chipset because at least it fucking works!!!
If we don't get this figured out soon I will just use the Dell.
P.S. bonus points c_hegge for figuring out which motherboard is in the 2U.

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