ncarver;299765 Wrote: 
> I used my daughter's recently discarded 2.5GHz P4 to set up a dedicated
> server to run SC, DNS (Bind), support file backups, and serve photos,
> etc.  Bought two 1TB drives and a SATA controller card, and am running
> the drives in RAID1 using Linux software RAID.  Machine runs SSH and
> Samba for file serving.  May add Postfix for sending email.  DNS
> lookups are way faster than via ISP's nameservers.  Machine is in a
> closet./QUOTE]
> 
> I considered an old G4 but they don't support big drives.  With the
> SATA card, how many drives will it support? I've started looking at old
> G5s b/c those will support bigger drives and don't need SATA cards for
> RAID.


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