Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > You might theoretically be helping millions of others reading along who > appreciate your continued inout about a derived subject - but it is more > sensible to me, and more visible to those who want that help, if you > change the subject line to match your derived topic.
No, I am helping the OP. As one wise man said once: from shit you can make only shit and this is it with low budget crappy hardware servers. He may be wise to understand you too. I did not want to induce my opinion that way, but if there is no other way to say it clear ... I hope now it is clear. Than someone suggests a NAS board etc. etc. - cause he/she has a server for MP3 files and so on... When I was student with low budget I tried this - nothing worked (long). Doing proper concept, calculations included and spending a bit more gave me a system running without an issue for more than 6y now - its worth the latest penny. So I do not know if you can buy for 500 today what I have bought for 1000 6y ago - I doubt, but then the guy says he has some old disks, not saying what kind of disks and wants a server? Pls give me a break. If those 3-4 people try reading/writing simultaneously and it has also some background jobs running ... well good luck.
