On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:28:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's the current box? I mean, I've got one that's doing about > that without breaking a sweat, and it's about 7 years old. A PII > (*any* PII) would be enough for this with enough RAM, and you can > spend the money you'd spend on the new box on drives and fans > instead.
The current box is an nforce2 board, Athlon XP1700 and 512 MB RAM. Plenty of muscle in the processor-memory area. I meant to underscore the part of my question about the *storage* subsystem (mainly the disk controller). The current box has no SATA, only on-board PATA. I'm kind of thinking that I'd like to run hardware RAID5. SCSI is just too expensive, and hardware RAID for PATA is getting harder to find, as it gets ousted by SATA. Based on the feedback I've received so far, I now think I want to build a "little" (Soekris, mini-ITX, etc) OpenBSD box for my firewall/gateway/NAT, and the current box will become just a fileserver/source repository/backup server. So, still, the question remains: what do folks recommend as "good" hardware for hard disk controllers? Thanks again! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email
