Topic: Efficiency of SME server

[Alan Rabinowitz]

Can someone tell me an algorithm to calculate the efficiency of the SME server is regarding the hard drive speed, Cpu speed and ram, whether it is advisable to use a SCSI drive etc.

[schotty]

?? Not actually sure what the e-smith has got to do with SCSI or IDE !!!
The question will surely get interepreted several different ways!

With the speed of ide hardrives catching up fast on scsi drives, then the difference is down to a minimum. If you need the server for processing lots of data on the harddrive then the scsi drive will surely be the best bet - and that wont matter what operating system its running on!

What would you plan to use the e-smith server for, how many users, which services are going to be used....


Greetings

schotty

[Chris Curtis]

I have a sme server running on AMD 200's with 128MB of RAM supporting 7 users.  The users never complain about speed.

I often "sell" sme on servers with AMD 800's to 1.5GHZ and IDE drives to small businesses with less than a dozen or so customers, with no performance problems.  

I have a few 100+ user  locations running 3K to 4K$ dell servers, with no performance issues.

I hope this helps in some way.



Last item, I have a customer (7 workstations) running SME on one of those 199.95 wall-mart.com boxes.  It handles file, login, dhcp, and mail services.  No complaints about performance.  

As a matter of fact, my customers who have linux servers, seem to only have windows desktop problems as a rule, how odd!!!!!!!!!!
Chris Curtis