[CentOS] server specifications

Sun Feb 13 22:57:05 UTC 2011
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

2011/2/14 Michel Donais <donais at telupton.com>:
>>Before any possible answer can be given, the first question must be: What
>>do you plan to do with it?
> You'r right, but I have to begin somewhere.
>
> This hardware is intended to be a terminal server for at least 40 users
> driven with LTSP.for BBx Pro-5 and Bbj applications
> Need fast and huge storage, 2 lan fast connexions. No intensive mail or web
> browsing, 1 or 2 outside (xtranet ) users;
> back-up will be on an SLR-100 tape drive
>
> The load for 20 users and for the last 6 years with RH9 is actually
> supported by a
> MOTHER BOARD : MSI KT-3 ULTRA DDR 333(3) CE (ATX form)
> CPU : AMD-2100 XP
> memory : 2 DDRam 333 (512MEG) for a total of 1024meg
> 1 scsi controller adaptec 29160 SCSI
> 3 hard disc SEAGATE CHETAH ULTRA SCSI-ULTRA-320 LVD (68 pin)
>
> It  have been enough for that tme but users number is raising and by the way
> an upgrade of the computing capacity will be usefull.
>
> I checked recently for  an ASUS S775 P5Q-VM G45 PCIE MOTHERBOARD with an
> INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q9550 2.83G/1333/12M/S775 with SATA hard disc no Raid
> I doesn't seem to be a server board and I'm not shure of that choice.

Maybe you just want to pick real server hardware? Pick one of Dell RXX series.

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Eero