Re: ATA or SCSI ???! how much RAM ???!

From: patpro (patpro_at_boleskine.patpro.net)
Date: 11/18/03


Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:31:57 +0100

In article <Zguub.2$sL4.0@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
 "John Porter" <bn@auto-gielda.pl> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Next week I will buy new machine. Probly it will be dual xeon 2.4ghz or
> single xeon 3ghz - all this is 1U rack.
>
> On this server will be run really a lot of applications like shoutcasts, p2p
> servers, psybnces etc etc
>
> Do you think 1gb of DDR RAM is enough or should be 2gb ?

the more the best, especially for p2p (poorly coded apps, thousands
simultaneous connections...)

> Do I really need SCSI hdd or could be ATA ?

SCSI is really expensive, I would use 1 SCSI drive for the OS and swap
(5 or 10 GB), and IDE drives for all served data.

patpro



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