[dundee] server recommendation

[Scott McGurk]

I would say its worthwhile noting that Samba servers are nessecarily heavily
loaded - as far as CPU use go.

In the office, we run a mix of the following as fileservers;
2 x HP Proliant ML115 - 2TB total - running openfiler
2 x HP Proliant DL380G5 - 8TB Total - Running openfiler enterprise
1 x HP Proliant DL360S - 6TB Total - Win 2k3 Storage Server (not my
choice!!)

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)

If you arent comfortable with the PSU failing, youd need redundant PSU's,
which will push up the type of server you require.

If you need any more info, give me a shout.

Hope this helps!

Scott

2009/6/24 Andrzej Hajto <tlug at defcon1.eu>

> Any recommendation for file server running (of course) Linux and Samba
>  for small office, about 20 users?
> What about Dell PowerEdge 840 Intel Core 2 Duo E4700, 4GB RAM, 500GB
> HDD. Good enough? Too good? Any other spec recommended?
>
> Andrzej
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