Hi,

Same advice, your CPU / RAM are OK (a little over-sized for a Samba file 
server, a Celeron with 512 Mb will be perfect), but please grab a 
Raid-disk array and maybe a backup system (tapes like DDS). Your disks 
are too faster (and expensive/noisy), drop the 15K RPM and grab a third 
one for the Raid 5 config. That will save your life later.

Mark Thomas a écrit :
> I've been asked to build a file server for some ( less than 30 )
> Windows machines. I'm going to setup Samba on NetBSD 3.0. My concern
> is performance, in the way of multiple users accessing to the same
> files. So my question is what hardware would give me the best
> performance boost?
>
> Currently I'm leaning toward the following.
>
> Processor: Intel Xeon 2.8 - 3.4GHz 800MHz 2MB L2 cache Xeon Processor
> Memory: 2 GB PC2-3200 ECC DDR2 RDIMM
> Controller: Dual-Channel Ultra320 SCSI Controller ( not sure about
> raid at this point )
> Ethernet: Gigabit Ethernet
> Disk: (2) 146GB 15K U320 SCSI
>
> thanks
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