Pentium Pro 200 & Linux

[spacelord]

What is the slowest computer on which I can run Linux as a fileserver, and be able to sustain good transfer speeds? I have an old P-Pro 200 laying around and wondered if it could handle the simple duties of a relatively fast fileserver for home.

I want to put in a PCI raid card and raid a few drives.

 

[n0cmonkey]

It'd probably be ok.

 

[silverpig]

So long as you're not slashdotted for serving free porn you'll probably be fine 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

For 100Mb/s speeds that should be fine, the problem will most likely be that older machines like that usually have older disks and controllers which end up being the bottleneck.

 

[spacelord]

Thanks.

I may try it with a PCI controller card.

 

[doornail]

The Pentium Pro was a really good processor. Rumor has it that Intel began to purposely made the 'pro scarce because it benchmarked too well against the new Pentium II's. The L2 cache on the pro ran at CPU speed and the cache on the P2 ran at bus speed.

 

[Bluefront]

I found an older Dell P-Pro 200 in a trash can. After a rescue, I installed XP on a 15gb Hd I had......runs ok with 128mb ram. I even installed a new video card and a USB2.0 card. Not bad for a free computer w/junk-box pieces.

Use it as a server? Why not?