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| 352046 | 2005-05-04 10:17:00 | Im thinking of, in the near future, building a file server. im on a tigh budget but i really want to be able to expand later on. i also wanted good multitasking proformance. so i decided on quad pII xeons. well at first the mobo would just have 2 xeons in it but thats waht i mean by expand. i relise how old pII xeons are, and im hoping that because of this they woudl be relitivly cheap. i just have no idea where to find a good mobo(or what a good mobo would be) somethign i read mentioned AD450NX. i also dont really know what sort of clock sppeds i whould be expecting to get out of a pII xeon. any help would great. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 352047 | 2005-05-04 12:43:00 | Ive used a P2 333Mhz fine as a file server. I had a P1 75Mhz w/48MB Ram for a while, but it was a ***** compiling Gentoo on the 1.2GB HDD so I figured I'd use my other 400Mhz box. It does the job and CPU quite honestly sits at 5% or less, even with general people access the website which is stored on a Blowfish 56-bit encrypted partition. Even a single Xeon would suffice for file-serving, regardless of clock-speed. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 352048 | 2005-05-05 04:27:00 | im thining more as a personal fileserver, as well as posibly a linux firewall. that and personal braggin rights i just need to know where i could get the parts from, and for how much |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 352049 | 2005-05-05 06:15:00 | Again, my P2 400Mhz is overkill, so try Trademe. I use mine as an ssh/vnc/http/smb/ftp server and it still doesnt get break a sweat! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 352050 | 2005-05-05 06:44:00 | For a file server and firewall a 486DX2-66 would eat it.;) A computer which doesn't use any eye-candy has lots of time to do work. I saw the specifications of a grunty router (16 10GHz ports). It uses a 300 MHz Pentium. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 352051 | 2005-05-05 10:13:00 | On my personal network i use a 500Mhz for a file server / proxy / firewall. I've compared this to a reasonable machine (1gh or better) and noticed significant speed improvement on the proxy service. For a file server, you should be more concered with the read/write functions over pure CPU grunt. You would be far better off setting yourself up with a raid solution over dual cpu's. The mention of older type cpu's is a bit misleading. While a 486DX2-66 could function as a simple file server, you would end up stiking a pen in your eye if you tried to do anything serious with it. What were those disk specs on a 486? Oh, and i forgot about having to leave the machine running for half a day to compile Samba for your old non Pentium class distro that you would have to use. |
webdesigner (7941) | ||
| 352052 | 2005-05-05 12:09:00 | i hav a 150mhz 32mb ram running win2k and hav http/ftp/vnc on it..of coz window file sharing too.. ..seems to work fine.. and also...i'm just wondering what OS u guys are using to run ur severs ?? |
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