> A) A doublechecking cleanup team of computers. A team of (say) five
> PIII-500s, 64MB SRAM and suitable motherboards, with cheap everything else
> (cases, etc, and probably only one old monitor to share among them all)
As a computer repairman, of two years, I agree with my father of (5 years
computer repair experience, ~20 years electronics experience), and his
co-worker (30 years of computer repair experience) that your *never ever*
cheap out on power supplies. And crappy cases almost always come with
crappy power supplies. This is expecially true for a team like that one
that would have to have constant operation.
Crappy power supplies can cause flaky performance in innumerable ways
relating to CPU and motherboard operation, as well as drive operation.
Just in case these things get built, what OS should they have, or does
it matter significantly for speed?
-Lucas Wiman
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