Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > [snip] > > Specifics. We need much more. > > How much performance do you need? I.e., how many users will be > hitting it at the same time, what kind of apps run on the box, etc?
Just me. Maybe myself and one other user. I don't need a lot of performance once it's up and running. It's network attached, so I don't really need more disk throughput than I can get out of my 100Base-TX network connection. > > When you say "100+ GB", do you mean 100-150GB, or something *much* > larger? Between 100 and 300 gigs, I guess. I have almost 200 gigs of data that I'd be storing and backing up, but I can predict a need for more storage in the future. > > PS - I've been using Linux on Via chipsets for 4 years, and have > had very good success, and no negative h/w issues. I couldn't get my hard drive to operate with DMA on this Abit KT-7A RAID motherboard (not using the RAID controller, just the onboard controller). One of the other debian-users here was kind enough to send me his old PCI ATA controller, so I can hopefully use that to get DMA working. You can check the archives for the problems I had with this fileserver initially, while copying files from my old hard drives on another machine (WinXP) to this new one. -- Aaron Bieber - Graphic Design // Web Design http://www.fisheyemultimedia.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
