I brought up the idea in my church and people seem to agree that it would be a good idea.
What it needs to do: hold backups, transfer excel/word/pictures, I may run a TF2 server off it just for kicks, they have FIOS and don't use it at night, Email(maybe).
Maybe about 10~2- people on this network, only real purpose for this is backup and save people steps. May host a website for some media stuff
So far I got
5000+/785G [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.271915[/url]
DDR2 800 CL 4 2gb [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231171[/url]
HDD 500gb w/ 32mb cache [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136320[/url]
psu + case [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171046[/url] / [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119088[/url]
OS- thinking I will use Windows Server 2008 just so I can get use to it for my Cert. But I am open to Linux alternatives
thinking about swapping out for this [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.269759[/url] and pick up a G31 [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131288[/url]
to cut costs but not sure yet. No reviews on the E3330
Trying to keep this low as possible as I am paying out of pocket. anything I need that I am overlooking
Anyone?
Oh come on no one? really?
pffff
hdd is a bit small for a fileserver
In my opinion, it's a bit overpowered for serving files. If all you're doing is serving files, you could get away with a pentium II really. Might be a bit overkill for TF2 hosting even.
So the idea is your hosting files for people?
yeah In was thinking just getting an Atom, but and then a 1 tb drive. I may do a website for the church with this machine don't know yet
[editline]09:43PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=billyman;17700671]So the idea is your hosting files for people?[/QUOTE]
just for about 20 people
How many hits a day do you think that church website is gonna get?
Okay think I will get this an atom looks good but eh rather stick to this
1tb HDD [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185[/url]
Ram [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161172[/url]
G31 [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131288[/url]
E3200+ coolermaster case/psu [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.269759[/url]
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I think I will do that, I would use some of the systems they have there but eh don't wanna under do it
[editline]09:51PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=Unreliable;17702106]How many hits a day do you think that church website is gonna get?[/QUOTE]
I think we get about 100~200 a day nothing big
Spend less on the computing hardware, and spend more on HDD space.
20 people max(probably more like 15) I think 1tb is enough for .xml/xcl files, a few movies and back up's.
I mean I can always add another drive later
You sure about only using a single disk for a file server? I realize a real RAID can throw your budget out the window but I've never seen a file server used in a business that is only running a single disk. Even a software RAID 1 would be better than no RAID.
it is only 20 people, but I'll look into it. Going to be used for a preschool/daycare and pictures
-X2 5800
+Low power Celeron / Pentium
Something like an E2200 would get the job done well.
You should have a think about security if different people are using it. Trusted or not, security should still be in place.
Secondly, a 500GB drive for 20 users would give 25GB per user. This is excluding the space for the OS, web server and game server. I was going to mention disk performance but if this is only over the internet then the connection would be the bottleneck not the drives. I'd also look into using RAID 1.
Speaking of the internet connection, keep in mind that the upload bandwidth from the server will be divided between all the people who are downloading from the server at the time. This may get quite slow. Added to that your personal traffic on the connection. For the game server, I'd point out that I've recently seen a server with about 40-60 players lagging from a 20Mb/s upload limit. SRCDS seems to use bandwidth in spikes so some headroom may be required for that as well as traffic prioritisation.
In terms of CPU power, you don't need much power at all to run a small file / web server and even a reasonable size TF2 server.
Yeah from the security standpoint I think I have that covered.
these 25 people won't all be accessing stuff at the same time, mostly Preschool morning, daycare noonish, and there are only about 8 computers so I doubt that speed will play much of an issue
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and web page hit I doubt will go over 200
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