Re: hardware for file server

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 11 Jan 2008, at 16:39, Dieter Baron wrote:
>  I intend to use 4 750gb hard disks with a raid 5 volume on them.
[...]
> - what kind of CPU, at what speed

An Intel Core or Athlon 64 CPU with at least 2GHz should be good enough.

> - how much RAM

1GB should be enough but more could help performance.

> - hardware raid or raidframe.

RAID 5 in software is slow, especially for writes.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                           http://zhadum.org.uk/