Re: [ccp4bb]: question about Linux-based crystallographic computing(fwd)

[Kevin Cowtan <cowtan@ysbl.york.ac.uk>]

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> 1. Put there a RAID array and sleep well at nights

Having said that, the cheapest way to get a RAID is to buy a linux machine 
with a lot of IDE channels and stuff it full of hard disks. You can easily 
build a terabyte raid with redundency for under $2000 like this.

The software installation is trivial - you can now configure disks using 
software raid in the RH7.2 installation script. It's no harder than a 
non-RAID install.

I typically get about 3 months uptime from a heavily used Linux box.

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