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Depends on the load of the server.

Gilles.

dieter roelants wrote:
> On 04/28/06 06:49:56, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>> If you are going to serve files, I would definitely mirror disks 
>> given the low cost of disks these days. Save on CPU/RAM get 2 disks. :)
>>
>> If you are only doing SAMBA, you don't need more than 512MB of RAM. 
>> 2GB is way overkill. If your SAMBA file server is not running X11, 
>> you can even get away safely with only 256 MB of RAM (NetBSD is a 
>> very slim OS).
>
> For a file server, you really want more RAM than 256 MB, for file 
> cache. I don't think 2 GB is overkill.
>
>
> dieter
>
>> Since you are doing SAMBA, your bottleneck will not be CPU but rather 
>> the Windows machines you are serving on the other side. You will most 
>> likely not get more than 200kbps on the Windows machines... so you 
>> can easily get away with even less than a 2GHz CPU. Get the cheapest 
>> CPU you can find. (I have a preference for AMD).
>>
>> Gilles.
>>
>

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