[K12OSN] Minimum Server Config
Henry Hartley
henryhartley at westat.com
Mon Sep 19 19:05:22 UTC 2005
I've been asked to design a small computer lab for a non-profit in St.
Vincent. I'd like to deliver a reasonable LTSP lab but my budget is
currently exactly zero. Getting donations of virtually any number of
adequate thin client machines is not a problem. We'll probably end up
soliciting funds for the server and I want to recommend as low-end a
machine as I can get away with. I don't want to scare them away with a
$3,000 price tag. We can always do more if we raise more but we need to
start very small. I'm expecting to need to power only about 10
workstations and I think we can live with the system being on the slow
side, as long as it doesn't lock up for five or ten minutes at a time.
I understand that RAM is probably more important here than CPU speed.
Is AMD going to save me anything over Intel? Assuming I cannot afford
SCSI drives, would it make sense to get multiple IDE drives and do RAID
in some form or just live with standard IDE drives? Would a fast PIII
give me better cost/performance as compared to a P4? I appreciate any
and all advice you can give. Anyone willing to spec out a machine in
detail earns extra points.
--
Henry
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