[K12OSN] help with a server please

[Mike Ely]

On a somewhat related note, I can't help but wonder if a single Sempron
of any stripe is going to be enough to churn the numbers.  If there's
any way at all that you can manage an athlon, I think you'll be much
happier.

Cheers,
Mike

Joe Guenther wrote:
> Yes, by all means go with 2 Gb of RAM.
> Another option to SCSI is SATA RAID 1 - striping. This way you have 2 drives 
> serving files. I have a dual 2.4Ghz Xeon, 4 GB RAM and 2 SATA drive on RAID 1 
> serving 25 clients (have had up to 37 clients all doing diploma exams on 
> OpenOffice and printing without the slightest hicup).  I do not do any user home 
> directory storage on the LTSP box but have the student authenticate and store 
> their files on a Novell 6.5 server.  I do not think SCSI is worth the cost 
> today.  I think there are good SATA RAID controllers and good SATA drives that 
> are just SO MUCH cheaper than scsi, that I cannot justify scsi just for ltsp in 
> a school or internet cafe environment.  You get HUGE sata drives for very little 
> money - put them on a good sata RAID controller and you will not tell the 
> difference without some very very serious testing.  I vote for sata!
> 
> Joe Guenther
> 
> Sudev Barar wrote:
>> On 14/03/06, Alejandro Mel <piritarodo at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>> I bought very cheap  second hand 20 compaq deskpro 233Mhx mmx 32MB Floppy
>>> and 2mb S3 video card and 3COM 100Mbit netcard
>>>
>>> Regarding the network, I am thinking of buying a 24 port switch with one/two
>>> 1GBIT port for the server
>>>
>>> The only thing I can t decide is the SERVER because Iam a little confused.
>>> Iam going to tell you what I have in mind..... tell me wrong things, changes
>>> , etc...etc etc
>>>
>>> AMD SEMPRON 3000+
>>> 1GB KINGSTON/CORSAIR DUAL cas 2.5
>>> WESTERN DIGITAL 76 GB RAPTOR 10K
>>> A POWERFULL POWER SUPPLY 500W TOPOWER
>>> UPS FOR MORE STABILITY
>>>
>>> what do you think about RAID 0 with two raptor wd??? ECC CAS2 MEMORY is
>>> wasting money???
>>>     
>>
>> With 20 clients in cyber cafe I strongly recommend go for SCSI drives.
>> I know they are expensive but worth every penny spent else with 20
>> users (or even 10+) disk(s) will start becoming performance
>> bottleneck. If you can bump the RAM to 2gb it would be good or you
>> will see lot of swap happening. In fact the first priority is RAM and
>> then SCSI drive.
>> --
>> Sudev Barar
>> Learning Linux
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