Hello All,

I am thinking of running  asimple netbsd fileserver on my network to serve 
files to windows users (samba) (maybe 4-8 computers, fairly intensive).

I want to know if there are any big limitations using an old PC (266mhz) to 
do this.

I was thinking of buying maybe a pci scsi card and a scsi hard drive, but I 
don't know if this will make a difference in performance from an ide hard 
drive, at the most ata 100.

When you a running a fileserver, what are the biggest hardware 
limitations? CPU? Memory?

I can only have a 100mb/s ethernet card as the interface, so presumably 
it's not too important to upgrade the hard drive. I also have a 166 pentium 
PC with EDO ram, but maybe that's pushing things a little.

Any tips or advice?

Thanks,

Amadeus

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