John Bowden wrote:
I have a Gygabyte GA-7N400 PRO2 with a 2.6 mHz Athlon cpu. I want to set up a central file storage for 2/3 users using 6/7 machines. A mixture of win2k, XP and various Linux distros (my home network). It will be used to store files, (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be the best option for the file and print serving ? The mother board has 2 X IDE channels, 2 X IDE channels with raid and 2 X SATA raid channels, that's up to 10 hard drive devices. The IDE raid chip is a GigaRaid IT8212F chipset. It supports raid 0 or raid 1 and raid 0 + 1 and JBOD. The SATA raid is a Silicon Image Sil3512. It supports Raid 0 or 1. Would I get better speed performance using the chips to manage the raid or using software raid? Oh and I will be using the CentOS 5 install dvd. Any advice from the list would be appreciated.
If you are interested in an appliance-like setup for serving files, printers, email and some other things, you might like the SME server from http://www.contribs.org. It's based on centos code but with a kickstart install and completely web based administration. It will automatically install as raid1 if it sees 2 disks, or as a 'broken' raid set if you only have one so you can easily add the mirror later (a very nice trick). Since the configuration is all built by web/perl scripts it is hard to do additional customization, but in a multiple machine setup you might find it easy to take advantage of its features.
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