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

[nick@corbettschool.org]

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.

  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org