I would say its worthwhile noting that Samba servers are nessecarily heavily loaded - as far as CPU use go.<br><br>In the office, we run a mix of the following as fileservers;<br>2 x HP Proliant ML115 - 2TB total - running openfiler<br>
2 x HP Proliant DL380G5 - 8TB Total - Running openfiler enterprise<br>1 x HP Proliant DL360S - 6TB Total - Win 2k3 Storage Server (not my choice!!)<br><br>In general, you can pick up the ML115's for a fairly small amount of money, and add SATA hdd's yourself, a 2TB system shoudnt cost more than £400 (this is of course assuming you are ok with using software raid, and that 1 PSU failure would take the server out of action)<br>
<br>If you arent comfortable with the PSU failing, youd need redundant PSU's, which will push up the type of server you require.<br><br>If you need any more info, give me a shout.<br><br>Hope this helps!<br><br>Scott<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/24 Andrzej Hajto <span dir="ltr"><tlug@defcon1.eu></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Any recommendation for file server running (of course) Linux and Samba<br>
for small office, about 20 users?<br>
What about Dell PowerEdge 840 Intel Core 2 Duo E4700, 4GB RAM, 500GB<br>
HDD. Good enough? Too good? Any other spec recommended?<br>
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Andrzej<br>
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