[K12OSN] server hardware advice

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Mon Jan 29 15:40:29 UTC 2007


Sudev Barar wrote:
> On 29/01/07, Fabio Milano <milanofabio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For 75 thin clients, I would definitly recommend a 2 cpu dual core
>> system, and about 8G of RAM (100mb per client), and SCSI HD's. If
>> budget is a concern I would use SCSI HD's for the OS and SATAII for
>> the /home directory.
> 
> IMHO Should this not be other way around? SCSI for /home and SATA for /
> Since it is the home directory that is going to be doing read write
> operations as that is where user data is this needs to be fast. SATA
> would server well for fast reads and that is why "system" directories
> can be on SATA.
> Ideally I would also put on SCSI (and any other tree path where data
> writes are going to take place)
> 
I had the same reaction as Sudev: I'd put /home on the SCSI disks.  They spin faster, 
SCSI is better suited for multiple users reading and writing.

Petre




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