Re: [seul-edu] Samba CD server...

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

At 02:47 PM 07/10/2000 -0700, nick@corbettschool.org wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 09:45:36AM -0400, Ryan Booz wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>> 
>> Over at school doing some work and talking with the man that approves
>> money.  We've talked all year about setting up a CD tower with say 6-7
>> CD-ROMs.  Looks like we could probably do it financially.  My question
>> is, what are my bare minimums on the system.  It won't have a tremendous
>> amount of load at any one time, I could see maybe two or three students
>> accessing it at a time.  Performance issues I should worry about?  Any
>> thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>  With harddrive prices being so low, might I suggest getting a nice,
>simple, IDE harddrive(At least 4G)?  Unless you've allready got the scroms
>and scsi controler I think a brand new 20G IDE drive would be cheaper than
>those cdrom drives. Not to mention, much more responsive.
>  As for bare minimums on the system, a low end pentium with 64M of ram
>should do fine.  For fileserving you don't need CPU speed, just some ram for
>a good disk cache.

You also need good local network connectivity--kind of difficult to do
filesharing well over dial-in connections....

>
>  - Nick Lopez
>    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
>