-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700 "michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> Looking for suggestions on going with 1 dual core CPU > > >> or 2 dual core CPU. Main server would be an NFS file server. > > >> Probably using SW raid as well. > > >> Money is a conern. > > >> Is it better to go with a single, yet faster CPU?, > > >> or go with a slower CPU, yet have 2 of them? > > >> > > > Go with whatever you can get cheeper. If it is primarily an NFS > > > server, any CPU over 1 GHz will do. Even a single cpu with a > > > single core. The only concern is if you are using a 10 Gbps > > > network card. If money is a concern, you are not going to be > > > using a 10 Gbps network card. > > > > Other questions to ask: > > - - How many users will it be serving? > > - - How "busy" will it be? Even if you are only serving one system, > > will it be a streaming uncompressed High Def video server, or an > > MPEG-2 and MP3 server for 1 person.? > > Probably about 100-150 workstations. > This server will also run proxy, email and web, but my main concern > was NFS as I'm kinda new to it. Sorry to join this thread a little late, but do you really need all of those services on one server? I consider it a pretty big security risk to have private data files on a public e-mail/web server. If it were up to me, I would be looking into a way to get 2 cheap servers instead of 1 expensive server. HTH, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFNm3jkpJ43hY3cTURAmpoAKCGQo1sLKCSF8KRh8Z+D/zYlrcwjQCfUkW0 JMZUPRkaP+pVHpgmgZlzOq0= =iPL4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
