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--On 02 June 2006 08:37 +0100 Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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! > <http://www.savastore.com/productinfo/product.aspx?catalog_name=Savastore&product_id=10287854&pid=44&MSCSProfile=E88FF544888F07618470FCBD21778583041EA8BB1E14AF73B1C0F37DC0618D1758F22EE107D7593A19C6D298C220FCCED66E3417788F7916F84893E5AC44FE6E518B4DA099293D6CA4F0211798FEC44BC5A0663B7719447A9F6192627B8FBE57C3C1A364B803A2522320796499A8E6B1CD03C0BD7BDB16C88960EE06F3049AB85CEDFECD739AE7F5> (Linksys NSLU2) In combination with a USB hard disk caddy (£20 or so) or even USB memory stick, it shouldn't come to more than £80 Depending on how much your time is worth, I'd imagine this would save quite a lot of installation time. If you then decide to waste some time with it, you can install linux on it: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ Then, as it has 2 usb ports, 1 can be used as a print server port if you want (only with the linux firmware, not the default firmware). That's the best thing about this particular option, along with the very small amount of power it would use compared with a PC. Regards, Mark -- 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