From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 27 13: 3:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lvdi.net (Mta.lvdi.net [216.24.138.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E69837B6A2 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:03:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: from lvdi.net ([216.24.141.111]) by lvdi.net ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:51:05 2000 PDT Message-ID: <38B9930C.C18120D7@lvdi.net> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:11:40 -0800 From: Frankie Li X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: searching on DB file Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am currently planning on building a small server to server 3 Windows clients, which uses Quickbook multiuser mode. The server will contain a Quick Book file (around 40-50MB) where everyone is going to work off. These clients are connected all the time throughout the day, and they do massive search on the Quickbook file quite often; I am wondering what hardware and software setup would best help minimize the amount of time it takes to search and access the database. Currently, I am planning: FreeBSD 3.3 Release Samba 2.06 Hardware: Dual Celeron 433 128MB of RAM 20GB 7200 RPM UDMA Hard Drive I have a quite limited budget, so SCSI wouldn't be possible. Since I do not need huge storage, would mirroring 2 smaller hard drives with (possible 5400 though, since I haven't seen the small 7200 RPM drives for a while...) improve the speed? Thank you very much! Frankie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message