-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael wrote: >> Hello, >> Looking for suggestions on going with 1 dual core CPU >> or 2 dual core CPU. Main server would be an NFS file server. >> Probably using SW raid as well. >> Money is a conern. >> Is it better to go with a single, yet faster CPU?, >> or go with a slower CPU, yet have 2 of them? >> > Go with whatever you can get cheeper. If it is primarily an NFS server, > any CPU over 1 GHz will do. Even a single cpu with a single core. The > only concern is if you are using a 10 Gbps network card. If money is a > concern, you are not going to be using a 10 Gbps network card.
Other questions to ask: - - How many users will it be serving? - - How "busy" will it be? Even if you are only serving one system, will it be a streaming uncompressed High Def video server, or an MPEG-2 and MP3 server for 1 person.? If it's lightweight like that, a Via EPIA EN-based mobo may be totally adequate. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFMYk1S9HxQb37XmcRAmdXAKCg1TtuJ4LhKrICD9LBQReG+y5RsQCg0uyv q3DB/MrD0I/NZUwIYJWKWKs= =05dx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
