On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:41 -0400, Jon Shorie wrote: > We have been running a mix of Redhat Linux, Fedora Linux, Kubuntu Linux, and > Sun Solaris 8 on our servers and some desktops since Redhat 6.0. > > It is finally time to replace our last sun server. The only thing that this > machine does is share files via nfs to our network of about 50 users and 18 > servers. > > I am trying to decide between a Core 2 Quad Q8200 and a Pentium Dual Core > E5400. The Quad is running at 2.33 GHz. The Dual is running at 2.7 GHz. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to whether we would notice much > difference > between the Dual and Quad for performance. > > I am including a list of the specs. > > 4u Rackmount Chassis > Antec Neo Power 430 430Watt Modular Power Supply > Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Motherboard > 4 GB Ram > > Intel Pentium Dual Core E5400 2.7 GHz Processor or > Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33 GHz Processor > > Western Digital Caviar WD5000AACS 500GB Hard Drive for the O/S Install and > temporary backup files. > > (2) Western Digital Caviar WD7500AACS 750GB Hard Drives using Linux Software > Raid for the shared files. > > Intel PWLA839GT 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Adapter > > The Specs of the Sun Server are as follows: > > Sun Ultra 450 > 2 Ultra Sparc 400MHz Processors > 2GB Ram > (4) Seagate Ultra 320 SCSI 36GB Hard Drives > 1 Drive for O/S Install > 1 Drive for Backup Temporary Files > 2 Drives using software raid mirroring for the shared files. > 10/100 ethernet adapter > > Thank you in advance for any suggestions. ---- I would tend to doubt that the processor is going to make all that much difference on a server whose primary function is to provide NFS but my own thinking is...
1 - I prefer good hardware RAID over software RAID. 2 - Peformance using RAID 1 or 1+0 (4 drives minimum) is much better than RAID 5 3 - I really like having at least a mirror RAID (RAID 1) on the boot volume as well as the data drives so in a server I wouldn't necessarily segregate the OS from the data on physical drives but rather in different RAID partitions. 4 - I would probably use RHEL or CentOS for this server rather than have to deal with the churn of many upgrades using Fedora. I like Fedora for Desktop and specialty server types but not a network backbone system. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
