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[TechBoyJK]

i found 3 dell servers that have p2 233 with 192MB of ram. no hdd's or cdrom drives

doing a bare server install of centOS, how effective could these be as file servers... say I install a 700GB drive in them, setup a samba share, and put them on the network for file backups...

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Have them crunching too!

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Have them crunching too!

yea i dont think they will be doing much... im just wondering if it can keep up with an 700GB drive trying to move 50GB at a time...

that or turn them into firewalls....

 

[alaricljs]

I have a 1Ghz Athlon w/ 384 MB of RAM. Originally it had 6 PATA 200GB drives, now it has 4 of those and a SATA 500GB hooked to an SIL3124 controller.

I don't have Gb ethernet since it's only a PCI mobo, but I can saturate my 100Mb link transferring data to/from the server.

Interestingly moving to XFS for the data storage disks sped certain operations up alot. Deleting a pile of files is instantaneous instead of taking a minute or 2.

This system is used as my media server primarily. I've got 100GB of flac, 20GB of ogg, 50GB of photos, 500GB of video... I've been able to stream different movies to 3 different machines simultaneously with no drops.

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
i found 3 dell servers that have p2 233 with 192MB of ram. no hdd's or cdrom drives

doing a bare server install of centOS, how effective could these be as file servers... say I install a 700GB drive in them, setup a samba share, and put them on the network for file backups...

did you check that the latest mb bios would even support drives that large? Those are some old machines. But if you could install a large drive, you could easily use them as files servers.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
i found 3 dell servers that have p2 233 with 192MB of ram. no hdd's or cdrom drives

doing a bare server install of centOS, how effective could these be as file servers... say I install a 700GB drive in them, setup a samba share, and put them on the network for file backups...

did you check that the latest mb bios would even support drives that large? Those are some old machines. But if you could install a large drive, you could easily use them as files servers.

Well you might end up throwing a new sata controller in a PCI slot anyhow, i doubt it would support drives that large. It should work pretty well as a file server with linux.