[K12OSN] server hardware advice needed

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

For 15-30 clients, that ought to do it nicely.  My dual-Athlon w/ 4GB 
DRAM works fine for 25, with room to spare.

You'll get some folks suggesting to go with at least SCSI, preferably 
SCSI RAID 5, and they'll be right, assuming that your budget allows for 
it (mine didn't).  I happen to use an 80GB IDE disk, and in my case, 
things are hummin' right along very nicely.  But the SCSI advice is good 
advice, especially if you'll be doing anything disk-intensive.

Were I you, I'd ensure that any NICs built into that motherboard, if 
there are any, are in fact compatible with the *stock* Linus Torvalds 
Linux kernel from www.kernel.org, without any additional third-party 
drivers or other additions.  Making sure that this is the case will make 
things much easier on you, trust me.  The way I test this is to try 
installing a minimal Slackware system, since Slackware, with the sole 
exception of v9.0 (one stability kernel patch was added back then), does 
in fact use an unmodified Torvalds kernel.

--TP

jim phillips wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>We are server shopping for a small school.
>
>Looking at a system from Ironsystems. M1520 with a rioworks HDAMA mobo,
>dual opteron, 4GB RAM.
>
>Any input from those who know?
>
>We will have 15 to 30 clients.
>
>thanks
>
>jim
>
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