I think it all depends on your budget (I assume you are asking what hardware
is needed/reccomended). I run a dual XP2100+ system as my home machine, and
I am very impressed with AMD's attempt to break into the server market. A
pair of AthlonMPs can be had for a reasonable price, and a dual CPU board
should cost no more than £200 with IDE. SCSI will knock up the price a bit.
I would reccomend a Tyan Thunder board, with SCSI onboard, and some good
Crucial/Samsung PC2100 ECC Registered DDR RAM.
If SCSI is too expensive, try a few Western Digital 'Raptor' hard drives in
a RAID array: they are apparently extremely fast (10000RPM, 8MB cache).
David Nelson
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From: "Paul Geary"
Hi All
I want to put together a small server to run SuSE Linux which will form a central point between a small Solaris network and a small Windows 2000 network used for Cisco router courses (Totals around 20 machines initially). The machine would be the gateway to internet services and email (and anything else I can think of).
I'd like to experiment with a raid based system possibly dual CPU (Not strictly necessary for a small network but I want to play with these things myself and also have plenty of room for expansion should the nix side of things take off).
Any recommendations gratefully received. Cheers Paul Geary
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