dangerous_dom Wrote: > Want to keep the cost to a minimum, as it's only for slimserver + > increacing my Linux skills. Appart from a large HDD, what would people > recommend as the minimum specs? > > Thanks, Dom.
Go for it. I've a 2-ish Ghz P4 here with a cheap 40-odd quid ASUS motherboard, and I expect it to last me a good few years. My server ran just fine with 256Mb of RAM for a year or so, I only increased it as I'm now running more than just slimserver on it, but hey, RAM's cheap these days anyway. So is disk space. I've gone for a mirrored setup using md (i.e. software RAID) as I'm also using the server as backup storage for my windows PCs. It's actually pretty straightforward to set up RAID. I'm using Fedora Core 4 which seems pretty reliable and easy to use to me, but then I've not used anything else. As another poster said, small HD(s) for OS and huge one(s) for music is a good plan. Good luck! Jon. -- jonmyatt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jonmyatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22506 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
