[OT] Hardware Decision

[Phillip Susi]

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
>