Some cpu and FSB speed can be handy if you also look at using mail/clamav
with samba-vscan or scanning the store(s) for viruses directly.

Yes, do add a RAID controller and at least another drive or two.


On 5/2/06 1:17 AM, "Eric Delcamp" <eric.delcamp@free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
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> 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.
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> Mark Thomas a =E9crit :
>> 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?
>>=20
>> Currently I'm leaning toward the following.
>>=20
>> 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
>>=20
>> thanks
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