[OT] Hardware Decision
Phillip Susi
psusi at cfl.rr.com
Wed Nov 9 19:54:01 UTC 2005
The xeon has more cache and a higher clock rate iirc, but a SOHO server
doesn't need a whole lot in the way of processor power, so I'd say don't
bother.
Also I'd recommend going with a middle of the road Athlon 64 instead of
a P4. A gig of ram should be good, two is better. The main thing to
consider for a server is the disk subsystem. You probably want a mix of
reliability and speed, so I'd recommend getting 3 disks and building a
raid-5. You can get some nice 10,000 rpm 74 gig sata drives from
western digital these days for ~$160. Three of those in a raid-5 will
give you 148 gigs of usable space that is fast and can withstand a drive
failure without data loss.
Hubertus Hiden wrote:
> I'm planning to buy some sort of entry level server for a small company
> with currently 10 simultanous users. This machine will act as a
> database/web/fileserver. Of course it'll run ubuntu ;-)
> Does it makes sense to buy a xeon machine ?
> Are there any known problems with ubuntu ?
> It's a dump question but what's the advantage of a xeon against a P4?
>
> Thanks for any answers
> Hubertus
>
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