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

[Dan Kolb <dankolb@ox.compsoc.net>]

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.

6-7 SCSI CD-ROMs (minimum, say, 16 speed for reasonable access and data
transfer rate), full tower case, reasonable SCSI card (I would
personally go for Adaptec), low-end Pentium system (probably a 133 would
do), small hard drive which case a minimal GNU/Linux system and NFS
and/or Samba support. The more memory the better, but say, minimum 64Mb.

You should be able to get some of the stuff second hand, so it should be
less than $600 (SCSI CDs and cards are still fairly expensive).

Dan
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