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A p450 declocked to an energy saving 200 with a pair of fairly new sata 250gb disk drives hanging off a couple of cheap cards (generic chipset) does fine with suse 9.3 for a small network of half a dozen machines. It's now got 512mb of ram so I can occassionally boot up an xwindows session for email etc if my main box is down (it sits next to it on the floor) but it started with 64mb many years ago and coped with the load admirably. I had spare ram left over from dead motherboards so its grown over the years to be a lot ram fatter. I've a couple of similar boxes in the loft as "spare" when geriatricity overtakes this one, unless I decide to go for a smaller and more energy efficient itx box (and quieter I suspect). That's all you need - and a p90 for a smoothwall box, grossly overspecified with a 1.5gb hard disk and 128mb of ram! If I upgrade this to an always on PVR server as well then the specs are going to have to grow significantly I should think. But for nfs/samba its more than enough for half a dozen. Malcolm On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 08:37 +0100, Richard Brown wrote: > Hi All > > On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:27, Simon Waters wrote: > > so the absolute minimum spec will > > depend entirely on what it has to do. > > > > How many client machines, sharing what sort of files, and what sort of > > access pattern? What is acceptable performance? > Thanks for the replies. The network consists of one Fedora core 5 (pentium 4 > 512 ram 8 gig hd) box, one Mac Powerbook Laptop (G4 1.5 gig ram), one Magnia > web server (headless and no keyboard/mouse) and one Windows 2 k (p3 450mhz, > 6.4 hd, 64 meg ram). > > I tend to only use the windows box to check sites out and so it doesn't use > the files so much but I do have one or two folks who work for me who only > touch windows! The bulk of the work is done on the Fedora with some work done > on the Powerbook. > > I want to be able to share files and use a mirror raid and then overnight send > to a backup drive! I will be using the file server to work from. i.e. I don't > intend to place the files on the hard drives of the Fedora box or Powerbook. > I was hoping to maybe try to install Fedora on the current Windows box, and > then up the ram on the current Fedora box and run that as the file server, > but I have to admit I don't know whether the file server needs the power or > whether the workstations need the power! > > I don't have a lot of money at the moment so whilst I would love to go down > the road of a San, I am not sure I can afford to! > > Thanks for the help. > -- > Rich > http://www.cregy.co.uk > Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. > Romans 12 v 1 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- "Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth." Oystein Dahle, former vice president, Exxon Norway and North Sea. -------------------------------------------------------------- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html