[ale] Hardware for a Samba file (and application?) server

[Leonard Thornton]

I personally am jealous of the hardware budget you people obviously 
have.  Here in small company land, we build our Samba and other servers out 
of PII 233s with 20 IDE drivers and $19.95 10/100 ethernet cards.  I still 
have production servers running on P166's....


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At 10:52 AM 10/30/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > 4x 36G drives in RAID 5 (Parity), gives you 64G, a hot spare, speed
> > someplace the average speed of the RAID 0/1 setup
>
>This sounds like what I want.  I'll just have to set up a data partition
>small enough to fit on one DDS4 tape and use the rest for other stuff --
>otherwise these guys will definitely fill the disk with PowerPoint
>files. :)
>
> >    Reiserfs on top of LVM. (It's a godsend)  Easy to expand LVols & 
> file systems.  Yeah!
>
>Ooo, more HOWTOs to read.  Thanks!
>
> >    DDS is good, that tapes are dirt cheap (compared to DLT).  The 
> drives do suffer (and your backups will suffer) if you don't keep the 
> heads clean.
>
>We clean our drives regularly.  We're a safety girl, so to speak.
>
> > Um, the Tyan Tiger is a good board, but you can't run two 1.4GHz
> > Palominos on it.  The Palominos is a Uniprocessor chip.  You need an
> > Athlon MP.  Those run at 1G, 1.2 (old die set) and 1.5, 1.6 & 1.8G
>
>I misspoke.  I meant the Athlon MP 1800+ or 1600+.
>
>Ben
>
>
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Leonard Thornton
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