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What OS to chose

Hi

We have a storage server that we are about to setup,
Supermicro X8DTI-LNF
6GB DDR3-1333
LSI SAS 9211-8I
36 Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB SATA
2 Western Digital RE4 500GB SATA

My Question is what would be the best OS to use on this system,
keeping in mind the MB uses ICH10R which seems to be a problem
for my first choice Ubuntu Server 10.04 (LTS) 64bit.

Thanks in advance

Stephen

spweaver

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Sorry forgot to mention,
we have Windows, MAC & Linux workstations,
all of which will need read/write access to the server

Thanks

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Many thanks

Does Ubuntu 11 support ICH10R?

also not sure if the LSI controller is supported,
there are drivers for RedHat and Suse.

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Many thanks

off to do some test install's

back soon

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spweaver

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Just found out there is 20TB of data on the disks in LVM of 2 RAIDs

going to have to put this on a back burner untill I get the data off

FYI the box is running Fedora 14 Desktop?

Will come back to this in a week or so

Thanks so far.

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Puttng this on a very slow back burner

Box has Fedora 14 with 2 18drive RAID 6 mounted in on 1 LVM
1 of the RAID,s has failed it's gonna take a while to rebuild and
get the data off

Thnaks So Far

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Many Thnaks for all comments will have to try them all,

unfortynily had to send the server to data recovery company
so will be some time before I get it back