hardware advise ( Samba file server )

On 04/28/06 06:49:56, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> If you are going to serve files, I would definitely
mirror disks  
> given the low cost of disks these days. Save on CPU/RAM
get 2 disks.  
> 
> 
> If you are only doing SAMBA, you don't need more than
512MB of RAM.  
> 2GB is way overkill. If your SAMBA file server is not
running X11,  
> you can even get away safely with only 256 MB of RAM
(NetBSD is a  
> very slim OS).

For a file server, you really want more RAM than 256 MB, for
file  
cache. I don't think 2 GB is overkill.


dieter

> Since you are doing SAMBA, your bottleneck will not be
CPU but rather  
> the Windows machines you are serving on the other side.
You will most  
> likely not get more than 200kbps on the Windows
machines... so you  
> can easily get away with even less than a 2GHz CPU. Get
the cheapest  
> CPU you can find. (I have a preference for AMD).
> 
> Gilles.
>