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• Intel DP35DPM
• Intel Q6600
• 4x2GB Kingston
• GeForce 8800GT
• LSI Megaraid U320, 128MB/BBU
• 2x73GB IBM 10K U320
• Samsung DVD
• IBM/Plextor 32x Ultraplex UltraWide SCSI
• Iomega REV 35
• Antec Solo Case
• 2xEizo L685 Screens
• Only working on Windows: Alacritech 1000 iSCSI TOE

the IBM disks are very silent and usually idle. the intended raid layout is:

• raid1 512M (/boot)
• raid0 16G (/)
• raid0 120G (/data)

all volumes get a proper VxVM mirror on an iSCSI target, once I find a reasonable iSCSI hba, probably qlogic

advantages, for those that don't see them on first blink

• full raid0 read performance
• round-robin read/write over all mirrors, added IO bandwidth over the local disks's performance
• NO delays due to quite damn good io schemes
• system will be bootable and fully functional if the local raid dies
• system will be bootable and fully functional if the iSCSI target dies
• Dirty region logging in free VxVM still excels a dozen times over "SW-Raid"
• fully cluster capable
• VXFS instead of ext3fs - far better performance and much higher reliability

The Alacritech TOE is a bit annoying: the driver won't work with the scalable networking pack for 2003R2 / 2008 as that (better) driver only works for the nextgen and newer cards. Also the TOE models didnt include a bootable bios!

I also have some windows-only apps running unstable in Wine (who doesnt) which might actually go well with the old Athlon64 (dual PCIe, too) that is on some shelf behind me, thus this desktop might end up being downgraded with the current hardware ending up as another Xen host.