The thing is that I own a web site hosting company and I don’t have itty bitty servers. They are all dual processor with servers boards that don’t always have IDE or SATA drive connectors. They are intended to use add-on SATA RAID controllers. I may have an old Promise SATA 150 controller but I’ll have to look at the SD drive requirements. I really have no reason against a SD drive other than the hardware I already have on hand and not wanting to spend anymore money. My server will be blessed to be in an actual data center with full time APC/UPS and backups.

This brings up another point – has anyone got a distro that puts Asterisks in a Virtuozzo or OPenVZ container? OpenVZ is free and allows easy backups and container migration if a server goes south. Perhaps I can help the group develop a distro like this.