New Quad on the way

Well, so much for no hardware budget :-) The company has just funded a new local server that will take the form of an Intel Quad with a healthy dash of RAM and 2T of disk space that is destined to be run in a RAID 1 configuration. A GeForce 9400GT with heat pipes is included in the order as I believe this card will churn through a decent number of SETI work-units without adding too much heat to the case. The ETA on this machine is the middle of next week. The IBM x-Series server will be retired due to a lack of space and the current local server will replace an old Celeron in the workshop area. The OS is going to be Ubuntu 64-bit (big surprise!) but I’m unsure of which version to choose. At this stage I am leaning towards the Long Term Service (LTS) release of 8.04 Hardy Heron as this is supported until April 2011 but am a bit concerned as I know the software RAID has been simplified in the later releases. I will have to do a bit of reading!