On Friday 21 September 2007 10:43:49 gjgowey@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
Exactly how much throughput are you realistically anticipating? What connection are you going to use? 802.11 or 10/100 or gige? And yes, the chips will pretty much always give you better performance with raid.
Geoff
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-----Original Message----- From: John Bowden j-alan@btconnect.com
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:58:27 To:CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Central file server advice please
Hi List I have a Gygabyte GA-7N400 PRO2 with a 2.6 mHz Athlon cpu. I want to set up a central file storage for 2/3 users using 6/7 machines. A mixture of win2k, XP and various Linux distros (my home network). It will be used to store files, (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be the best option for the file and print serving ? The mother board has 2 X IDE channels, 2 X IDE channels with raid and 2 X SATA raid channels, that's up to 10 hard drive devices. The IDE raid chip is a GigaRaid IT8212F chipset. It supports raid 0 or raid 1 and raid 0 + 1 and JBOD. The SATA raid is a Silicon Image Sil3512. It supports Raid 0 or
- Would I get better speed performance using the chips to manage the raid
or using software raid? Oh and I will be using the CentOS 5 install dvd. Any advice from the list would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
The m/board has an on board Realtek 8110S Gigabit chip (RJ45). All but the newest m/boards have 100 megabit nics and the switch is a 100 magabit, 8 port switch. the DSL modem is an "up to 8Mb connection" (generally about half that speed) with a 54Mb wireless point and 4 100 megabit ports. Only the laptops use the wireless all the other PC's are RJ45 wired. There is normally only me and the girl friend using the network. She browses the net. May be stream a film and a tv channel at the same time from the myth box when set up. Occasionally one or two mates round for a networked game of C&C Generals.
Very of topic Geoff but how easy is it to get your blackberry to talk with your Linux PC, for back up and editing files? I have an old Psion S5 that needs to be retired and have been looking at a Blackberry as a replacement?