RAID Server

[goldenk]

Help needed from the community.
I'm building a new server for our small business. Our current server is a pentium 133 running Novell netware 3.12 Obiviously old and out of date. I realize anything will be an improvement. We currently only have 2 GB of data, but will soon be adding more contact databases(names & addresses) as well as all of our photo files(approx 2 GB as well). My thoughts are as follows......

CPU - Athlon 1.4, 266 FSB
RAID - 1 30GB Seagate Baracuda ATA 100 mirrored for data
1 30GB " " " " " " photos.
My Questions are......
?Which mobo should I use, an I-Will KK266R or a SOYO K7-V Dragon or should I wait for the ABIT KG7?
?Do I need to use the DDR memory or is PC133 going to serve my needs just fine?
?Will I still be able to achieve a 266 FSB using the PC133 or is that only attainable with DDR?
?Is there significant difference between AMI & Promise RAID?
?Is there significant differnce between the Via chipsets and the AMD 760(761) chipsets?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
goldenk

 

[juice]

The Abit KG7 MB is out now, that is the one I am going to buy for myself. Are you on a tight budget? If not go get a MB that does not have raid on board and by a RAID card for it and set up Raid 5. Plus I would use SCSI HD instead of IDE. Sounds like this will be a workstation and not a server? What else are you going to run on it?

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[Abitols]

I´m building a small server with a Kg7-Raid and four ata 100 7200rpm ide disks on the onboard controller (Raid 0+1).
You don't need do buy a raid controller unless you want raid 5 (3 disks) which has poorer performance than raid 0+1.