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Hi, I`m looking for reliable and redundant hardware for Asterisk. I`ve been leaning towards buying one of these (HP 360 G5 with everything as redundant as possible), which I know will be good enough for a few months before needing to upgrade: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241 475-1121486.html Questions: 1) Any reason why I shouldn't? (bad past experience with HP hardware and Asterisk for example) 2) Should I go Quad core or Dual-core? I will certainly go with two processors (to start, simply for redundancy). 3) When installin...

Hi, I just came across this box [0] (McKay Creek). Seems to be exceptional building material for ZFS based NAS/iSCSI unit. I especially liked the two extra system disks hidden inside the box ! Any one have an experience with these ? [0] http://www.intel.com/design/servers/storage/ssr212mc2 -- Regards, Cyril

Hi, The language lab from the local university has contacted me. They'd like to have a low-cost file server for storing all their language video files. They have a mix of Windows, Mac OS X and even Linux clients, roughly 50 machines. The files are quite big, and they calculated a total amount of 2 To of storage. I'm not very proficient with hardware, meaning either I'm dealing