[dundee] server recommendation

[Daniel Lamb]

I would say you have more than enough for a simple file sharing server, 
or are you wanting to run more services from there?

Regards,
Daniel

Scott McGurk wrote:
> 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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