mustangman65_79 - I definitely agree. Using Ultra Wide SCSI III drives, regardless of drive RPM, would be much better. That's because SCSI drives have their own CPU built-in and do not utilize any CPU usuage from your systems processor. IDE drives have no CPU of their own, and therefore, rely totally on your systems CPU to handle all data transfer. This is why SCSI drives are much more expensive than IDE drives.
However, the new box I just built was just the first of four new servers I plan to add throughout this year for the sites. The next system in my grand plan is a twin processor 1.6 Ghz Athlon MP system based on a Tyan server motherboard with 1 Gb of DDR Ram and using twin 10,000 RPM Ultra Wide III SCSI drives running in RAID 0 mode. After this is completed, it will become our database server. At that point the databases will be moved off the new single processor 1.4 Ghz box I just built onto the twin processor machine. The single processor box will then just host servers.
After that, I will later build another twin MP system (just like the first) and at that point the Web server and application servers will move to it, freeing up the single processor box I just built to run just our FTP server, Email server, and reporting software.
The fourth box (another single processor IDE system) will be a simple Web server that serves all the images, media files (video, sound, and photos) for the sites, and run our advertising system. This box will replace the current Unix server.
Think all that will be good enough?
