Bruce Ellison wrote:
On 10/21/05, ET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
your reply to worked just fine here..
they work, how much "power" do you figure you need?
Thanks, got scared of the gmail curse before posting. :-)
Currently 40 PCs, maybe up to 60 total in the future, split into
around a dozen groups of like users. Each group and its users would
have up to 10 gigs of storage available. Mostly for occasional (< 5
docs/day/user) shared document use, but at least one group would be
heavier users (<= 25 docs/day/user). Documents in this case being
typical office reports in Word format weighing in at around 200k or
less.
Am I on the right track? The budget isn't huge, so was going with a
lite CPU, 1 gig of RAM(? - researching), 2 SATA 120's in RAID and a
third HDD for the OS (Mandriva of course).
Samba is new to me, but I'm working through some examples I found on
the 'net ... and I'm working off some of my newbie-ness.
Thanks.
not a big load for a samba server, the 32 bit cpu should do, and you
could do OK with even less than a gig ram (in 32 bit mode there is a ram
level of 768 megs where there becomes an added overhead. so 512 meg may
very well do just about the same (this is why we have the "enterprise"
kernels in 32bit versions, to handle the overhead of more than a certain
size ram, but it dos come with a minor performance hit , so you might
really find a 32bit computer running 640 Megs ram seem faster in some
operations than a computer with 896 megs
in general though, and 64 bits in particular more ram is better than
more CPU, dollar for dollar (do you expect the load to grow? would it
not be a good idea to support future growth)
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