Hello,

        I am not sure I would use IDE drives, depending on your cache size the IDE will
have a slower read write time. If you have the budget go with SCSI. 

If not, we use a PIII 1GHz with 1GB of RAM - 700MB of RAM for the OS and squid
to use and 300MB for the "cache" directory. Of course we lose all the cache if
the box reboots -- but it is only cache, you can copy it to a HDD directory
if you really want to keep it.

Michael.



On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:13:50 -0700
Jason Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> >Pretty small numbers, unless these users are very heavily surfing with
> >high speed connectivity.
> 
> Well, we do a lot of connecting to vendor web sites that have web 
> interfaces that we use.
> 
> >What kind of users?
> 
> Not sure what you mean here, but a big part of our company uses the 
> internet for a variety of things.
> 
> 
> >If these users are "normal" office users then a old Pentium with a single
> >IDE drive will do the job with no problem. Only thing to watch out for is
> >memory usage (See Squid FAQ on how much memory Squid requires).
> 
> Yes, normal office computers. All running IE because our vendor web sites 
> will not work with alternate browsers.
> 
> >Regards
> >Henrik
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Jason 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Michael Gale
Network Administrator
Utilitran Corporation

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