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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:16:07 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Valentin Bud <valentin.bud@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Opinion request about a file server
Message-ID:  <20090605131607.GB77412@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <139b44430906050557v4ce23a13r259535c3e839deb0@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <139b44430906050557v4ce23a13r259535c3e839deb0@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:57:21PM +0300, Valentin Bud wrote:
> Hello community,
> 
>  I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4
> CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM.
> 
>  I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar
> configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server
> and Print Server using samba.
> 
>  What i mainly try to achieve, talking in storage space, is 2 HDD of
> 1TB in mirroring using gmirror(8) and 1 separate HDD of 500Gb.
> 
>  So do you think the system I've mentioned would handle the load? The
> server will be used by 4 people for storage of all sorts of files that
> can be found in Design and daily Office World (Photoshop, Illustrator,
> etc, Word Documents, etc).

I think its gross overkill for that very light load.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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