<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Yes, by all means go with 2 Gb of RAM. Another option to SCSI is SATA RAID 1 - striping. This way you have 2 drives serving files. I have a dual 2.4Ghz Xeon, 4 GB RAM and 2 SATA drive on RAID 1 serving 25 clients (have had up to 37 clients all doing diploma exams on OpenOffice and printing without the slightest hicup). I do not do any user home directory storage on the LTSP box but have the student authenticate and store their files on a Novell 6.5 server. I do not think SCSI is worth the cost today. I think there are good SATA RAID controllers and good SATA drives that are just SO MUCH cheaper than scsi, that I cannot justify scsi just for ltsp in a school or internet cafe environment. You get HUGE sata drives for very little money - put them on a good sata RAID controller and you will not tell the difference without some very very serious testing. I vote for sata! Joe Guenther Sudev Barar wrote: <blockquote cite="mid774593a20603131732n4f031667n@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 14/03/06, Alejandro Mel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:piritarodo@hotmail.com"><piritarodo@hotmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I bought very cheap second hand 20 compaq deskpro 233Mhx mmx 32MB Floppy and 2mb S3 video card and 3COM 100Mbit netcard Regarding the network, I am thinking of buying a 24 port switch with one/two 1GBIT port for the server The only thing I can t decide is the SERVER because Iam a little confused. Iam going to tell you what I have in mind..... tell me wrong things, changes , etc...etc etc AMD SEMPRON 3000+ 1GB KINGSTON/CORSAIR DUAL cas 2.5 WESTERN DIGITAL 76 GB RAPTOR 10K A POWERFULL POWER SUPPLY 500W TOPOWER UPS FOR MORE STABILITY what do you think about RAID 0 with two raptor wd??? ECC CAS2 MEMORY is wasting money??? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> With 20 clients in cyber cafe I strongly recommend go for SCSI drives. I know they are expensive but worth every penny spent else with 20 users (or even 10+) disk(s) will start becoming performance bottleneck. If you can bump the RAM to 2gb it would be good or you will see lot of swap happening. In fact the first priority is RAM and then SCSI drive. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> !DSPAM:44161d5580747915514021! </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>