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11/9/12 at 12:22pm

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Hi all,

I have a friend who is a Captain in the US Air Force, he is trying to put together a machine for a project.

The only requirements for this project are high disk performance, and he already has 4x SSDs. All we need now is a barebones machine that supports RAID.

Since the military is kinda anal (go figure), the barebones machine needs to be from a "reputable" manufacturer, I can't home-build it for him.

I've already done some searching on NewEgg, but am having trouble... can anyone help me find a machine that is RAID ready?

Thanks!

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11/9/12 at 12:28pm

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Why does it need to be barebones? Why doesn't he just get a Dell Precision T3600 or something?

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11/9/12 at 1:03pm

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He already has 4 SSDs, he wants to try to use them.

The goal is to keep the cost down (unusual for government work, right?), buy buying a minimum rig that will support stripping out the hard drives from whatever machine is bought, and installing 4 SSDs and configuring RAID.

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11/9/12 at 5:49pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tatakau

He already has 4 SSDs, he wants to try to use them.
The goal is to keep the cost down (unusual for government work, right?), buy buying a minimum rig that will support stripping out the hard drives from whatever machine is bought, and installing 4 SSDs and configuring RAID.

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Originally Posted by Tatakau

Hi all,
I have a friend who is a Captain in the US Air Force, he is trying to put together a machine for a project.
The only requirements for this project are high disk performance, and he already has 4x SSDs. All we need now is a barebones machine that supports RAID.
Since the military is kinda anal (go figure), the barebones machine needs to be from a "reputable" manufacturer, I can't home-build it for him.
I've already done some searching on NewEgg, but am having trouble... can anyone help me find a machine that is RAID ready?
Thanks!

Kinda need more details about the build like budget, OS that he is planning on using, expected CPU/RAM usage, hardware or software raid, etc...

If he is using this for the military, why is he not going through official channels to acquire a workstation for this?

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11/9/12 at 7:38pm

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Anything that has 4 or more sata ports will work lol.

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11/10/12 at 7:23am

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High disk performance doesn't always equate to 4 SSDs in Raid0. Are these consumer or enterprise SSDs? I would be looking at something a little more professional myself...

I'm sure the USAF has some seriously high performance SANs, so why not use a machine and iSCSI an array to it? I don't see how the USAF is going to let him use something that is non-standard to the environment.

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11/13/12 at 3:44pm

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@OP

The only barebones server vendors I know are Intel and Supermicro. Might be worth a look.

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