Server Suggestion Request

Krsnendu dasa krsnendu108 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 04:41:30 BST 2008


Software raid is generally better than what is provided on
motherboards, because it can be loaded on any system. It is not
dependent on the same kind of motherboard (raid driver). Software RAID
is easy to set up on install.

2008/6/30  <operationsengineer1 at yahoo.com>:
> hi all,
>
> thanks for the responses.  what about a core 2 duo for the 15-20 machines?
>
> specifically, i'm thinking about this one...
>
> http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bedw42h&s=bsd&fb=1
>
> which is on sale from dell.  i could upgrade from the 1.86 GHz to the 2.13 GHz pretty painlessly if it made sense for my use.
>
> i'm not familiar with raid and they offer a raid option.  is that worth it?  can an open source software solution work nearly as well?  i was thinking that of setting up a nightly back up to the 2nd hd, but i don't really have any experience doing that or setting up and working with raid.  i would think the former would be easier to implement.
>
> i will definitely have a GB connection between the server and the switch.
>
> tia...
>
> oei
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: francois <francois.barillon at free.fr>
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:54:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Server Suggestion Request
>
> Le samedi 28 juin 2008 à 14:04 -0700, operationsengineer1 at yahoo.com a
> écrit :
>> my son's school has computer lab with 15 p3s with 128mb ram.  they'd
>> like to get a terminal server (running edubuntu) that could support
>> their lab.  ideally, they'd like to get a server that would allow the
>> terminals to all run flash or all run gcompris.
>>
>> what kind of terminal server specs am i looking at?  would a quad core
>> 2 GHz with 4mb of ram get it done?
>
> Usualy, you must allow 512 Mb for the server itself plus 512 Mb per
> group of 7-10 clients.
>
> So, to run 15 client you'll need about 1,5 Gb and a quad core is more
> than good.
>
> But you have to take care about a gigabit network card and a switch with
> a gigabit port.
>
> The disk speed and reliability is also important : two SATA disks
> configured in RAID 1 could be fine.
>
> Regards,
>
> François
>
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