[AccessD] OT: Server Needed

Hey....I didn't say ANYTHING about stuffing them! <grin>

Actually, if you remove the CD-Rom (after the installation)...then there is
plenty of room for 3 SCSI drives...and you don't even need to add more fans
if you don't want to....though it would be wise to add another case fan at
least.

What I love, is the people that want to order a 'server' just shy of a Cray
Super computer, that they want to run a webserver on, through a 128k ISDN
line.  It's like putting a Chevy 350 V8 into a HotWheels matchbox car.
<grin>

Drew

(Rocky, if you are reading this...just an FYI, Gustav is making a good
point, keep the machine cool no matter what.  If they go with a set of SCSI
drives, you can get decent DAT tapes that run on the external SCSI port.  We
got one a year ago, for my work machine, I think it ball parked around 2 or
3 hundred...I could be off on that though.  As far as cooling, I am running
4 IDE Hard drives in my Pentium III 500 mhz machine at home, and for a few
bucks, I was able to put a PCI slot fan, and a 5 and 1/4" hard drive bay fan
into it.  No heat problems at all.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:20 AM
To: Drew Wutka
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Server Needed


Hi Drew

I like such cute non-hefty desktops stuffed with three SCSI drives,
SCSI controller, insufficient cooling and no room for a tape drive.

/gustav


> Nope, you don't need a hefty machine at all.  You app isn't going to use
> many resources at all, just file sharing.
 
> I would recommend, if they are concerned about money, for them to just get
a
> Pentium III or IV desktop.  (I'd say at least 256 to 512 megs of RAM).
Get
> three hard drives.  (SCSI...but that may be a bit expensive....), Mirror
the
> OS, and RAID a data drive (you can do all of that in Disk
Management...with
> Windows 2000, no RAID controller necessary.)  If you don't want to setup a
> domain, then you can stick with Windows 2000 Pro.  If you want to setup a
> domain, then you'll need Windows 2000 (which ups the price, but you
already
> knew that).  

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