Having trouble choosing between these two:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5016/SYS-5016T-MR.cfm
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5016/SYS-5016T-T.cfm
The MRB is cheaper, but only has one drive bay.
The TB is a bit more expensive, but has 2 drive bays.
I'm building a server with and i7, 2x1TB drives, raid 1, 8GB RAM (might upgrade to 16)
This is where I get confused, the MRB supports 6 SATA PORTS and 1 SWAP. Does this mean that it supports 6 hard drives and one of them is hot-swap? Because I really don't need swap drives, don't really know what benefits they have besides quick access.
For my second question. I have found sources online where it sates that the MRB supports Raid 0,1,5, and 10. According to supermicro is only supports Raid 0. If that's the case then I will go for the TB instead.
Thanks to whoever can help me choose!
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5016/SYS-5016T-MR.cfm
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5016/SYS-5016T-T.cfm
The MRB is cheaper, but only has one drive bay.
The TB is a bit more expensive, but has 2 drive bays.
I'm building a server with and i7, 2x1TB drives, raid 1, 8GB RAM (might upgrade to 16)
This is where I get confused, the MRB supports 6 SATA PORTS and 1 SWAP. Does this mean that it supports 6 hard drives and one of them is hot-swap? Because I really don't need swap drives, don't really know what benefits they have besides quick access.
For my second question. I have found sources online where it sates that the MRB supports Raid 0,1,5, and 10. According to supermicro is only supports Raid 0. If that's the case then I will go for the TB instead.
Thanks to whoever can help me choose!