[K12OSN] Is IDE enough?

[Bert Rolston]

Hi Terrell,

Good combination.

Not TOO MANY users and truckloads of RAM. A balance between terminals
and file / print serving.

Linux uses as much ram as possible for file caching. It would be
interesting to see what performance is like with another 10 terminals.

So yeah, The DRAM is definitely helping you in this case.

Cheers,
Bert

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 01:33, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
> Depends on what you're doing.  Yes, SCSI is better at it in general, but 
> I've got 25 folks on a 7200 rpm IDE disk, and they run OO.o, Mozilla (or 
> Konqueror), and, occasionally, the GIMP.  They also access their files 
> from Windows boxes (Samba).  Most of them run KDE, but I let them also 
> run GNOME or XFce if they wish.  My server also has 4GB DRAM.  So far, 
> so good.
>