[Discussion]Best hardware for SRO server?

What's your opinion, what's the best hardware for a SRO server?
CPU: Core i5 / Core i7 / Xeon X series / Xeon E3 / Xeon E5 / Dual Xeon / AMD Opteron 24 core?
RAM: not much option here, ECC memory is obviously more reliable, 24GB is more than enough for 1000 players
HDD: SATA2 / SAS / SSD?
RAID: RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 2 / RAID 10?
Network: is 1gbps needed or 100mbps is enough?
Operating system: Server 2003 / Server 2008 / Server 2008 R2?
SQL Server: 2000 / 2005 / 2008 R2?
Best location: Europe / USA / Asia? Please also specify a country

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Wow, another attention whoring thread. I'm not surprised.
Don't act stupid, you perfectly know what kind of hardware is more than enough.

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Originally Posted by Haze* Wow, another attention whoring thread. I'm not surprised. Don't act stupid, you perfectly know what kind of hardware is more than enough.

Wow.
I'm not attention whoring, I just would like to hear people's opinion, because I'm not a hardware expert.
What's the problem with that?

CPU: Dual Xeon
RAM: 24GB
HDD: SATA2 / SAS / SSD? {Doesn't matter , if hard is 1tera or 1 milion tera , sata or sata2 etc. but I prefer SSD }
RAID: RAID 2
Network: 100mbps
Operating system: Server 2008
SQL Server: 2005
Best location: Europe / USA / Asia? Please also specify a country {//Dunno in this case/}

Buy kebab,its still better than any server pc!

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Originally Posted by HigurashiKai_ Usa?Go to hell If in this chase,players from Europe will lags and Egypt noobs too !

1.Read full line before writing like trash !
2.I didn't said that must be located in USA , I said i dunno in this case;
3.Do not insult and go off-topic , You've to write what consider in topic only.
4.Do not reply because you will write trash as you wrote , seems like you are newbie here and dunno anything about what you've to do .

Sorry ph33n1x but i had to quote him .

CPU:i7
HDD:16-24
HDD: SSD(choose any)+1TB HDD (It can be fine just with the HDD ;))
Network:100mb/s
OS:Windows server 2008 R2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't choose the webserver because most of the addons and things won't work properly or won't work at all.

SQL server: SQL 2008 R2 (Evaluation) - 6 months ! If you are still on the market after 6 months... you'll find a solution to renew the license .
Location: Germany, Russia, or The Netherlands .

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Originally Posted by HigurashiKai_ Better stick ur finger in someone's else a$$. OT: CPU: Core i7 RAM: 24GB HDD: SATA2 RAID: RAID 2 Network: 1gbps .100mbps may lags Operating system:Server 2008 SQL Server: 2005 Best location:France or Germany

Whats the point of sql server 2005? o.o

SQL Server 2005 sucks !

I don't know,the sql part was random written.
I use sql 2008 r2 for my server.

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Originally Posted by HigurashiKai_ I don't know,the sql part was random written. I use sql 2008 r2 for my server.

No comment...

XBOX 360 CLUSTER !!!!!!!
5TB
JTAGGED WITH WINDOWS 7
500 DOWN AND UP SPEED.

I will tell you about of our main machine at Class Online

2x Xeon QC X3440 2.53GHz
16Gb RAM
XGb SAS 15700rpm RAID10 with source energy controller
Russia (safety > everything, kings of offshore)

The second machine is the same one but with a more updated processors, 24Gb ram and 2Tb HDD.

You don't need SSD drives for a server like this, a SAS like mine is already strong enough for 2500 people (when we had 2000/2500 players we were running with 0 lag with this setups.

And of course a good server setup with a good technician. The OS we are using is Win2k3 RC2

The best hardware for sro server ? The best hardware. Same as for any server, hah.

96gb dedicated :handsdown:
haha just kidding, I think zikor1337's is the bst c;