Topic: New Configuration for SME Box

[MattAPI]

Hi all,

I need a little help. (Maybe a lot of help after you read my post.)

I am putting together a new box and wanted to know what harware to get.

The intentions of this box is to act as a filserver only.  It will serve up files and nothing else.  Plan to load about 40 -60 GB worth of files on it when its up and running.  The computers that will be connecting to it will be primaryily Macintosh (OS 9 and OS 10.3), about 5 of them.  There will be 2 PC's connecting to them as well.  I will be running a backup on a nightly basis

I am considering the new Intel Motherboards ( Intel - Socket T ) and a Socket T Intel Chip ( 3.2 Ghz Prescott).  The motherboard will have on board video, Raid 1 (Built-in to the motherboard), and gigabit.

My questions are:
1) Is this current hardware configuration compatible/supported with the current build of E-smith/SME Server?
2) Is there something I am missing?  Should I use a differenet configuration, and if so then what hardware?

Please help.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Matt

[mbachmann]

Use a common midrange system which is like 2 years on the market. I still use a PIII 1000 with 512 RAM and 2 40 GB IDE  for 40 users/webmail/samba/printserver whatnot. No need for overkill machines.

[marsa_matruh]

Ide ou Sata HD?

Avoid Sata with sme 6. And also, Raid1 "built-in" in the motherboard is usualy not hardware and needs drivers.

As said mbachmann, an old config is enougth. My desktop is 2 years old => Pentium 4 2,66 Ghz, up to 4 Gb/DDR dual channel. What do you need more?

[EnglishRob]

I'm using an Athlon 800 with 256MB ram and it works lovely with SME Server 6.0.  Not sure what software raid is like on it, I only have one hard disk.

I wouldn't think you'd need anything excessive anyway hardware wise unless you was probably talking hundreds or thousands of users?

I assume SME Server would cope with hundreds of users?

Rob

[alejandro]

My system:
Pentium III 450mhz 512 ram (dimm) 2x60GB hitachi uata 133 hdd (sme soft raid), an old gigabyte motherboard
It works perfectly in a medium office (25 users win-mac-ux)
Web server
proxy server
e-mail with assp (antispam) server
file, printer and plotter server.
backup server (night and weekends)

Maybe you'll say it's time to upgrade but it seem there is no need yet...
ALE

[KegRaider]

Mate  

If you are only using it for fileserving, you don't need that much grunt anyway.  Unless you have a gigabit lan (unlikely). I was hapily using a Pentium 120MHz for a network of 5 PC machine.

I upgraded it 3 years ago to a Pentium III 1.0G with 2G PC133 SDRAM.  I set it up with a software raid mirror on 2 x 40G Western Digital Hard drives.

I only upgraded because my boss told me to up the grunt for future expansion.  Well, that paid off because it now handles 45 pc's and 2 mac's.  All have email accounts, home directories, quotas, shared ibay groups, and surf the internet all day.....i'm sure that is all they do!     Good old SARG!  My record uptime for this rig was 378 days!  The powersupply blew, destroying my dreams of 2+ years....oh well maybe this time...

I hope this helps with your decision, I personally would use your own desktop machine as the new SME, and use the hardware for a new desktop  

[EnglishRob]

378 days? Thats pretty cool.

Longest I had was about 21 days and I knocked the power cable out by mistake

Maybe I should find another location for my server  

A place I used to work at had 2 RedHat servers, one of them had about 360 days uptime and then the UPS died.

Rob