On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Michael Gale wrote: > I am not sure I would use IDE drives, depending on your cache size the > IDE will have a slower read write time. If you have the budget go with > SCSI.
A single reasonably modern IDE drive is usually fine for up to ca 40-50 requests/s. > If not, we use a PIII 1GHz with 1GB of RAM - 700MB of RAM for the OS and squid > to use and 300MB for the "cache" directory. Of course we lose all the cache if > the box reboots -- but it is only cache, you can copy it to a HDD directory > if you really want to keep it. Sounds like a total overkill for the environment. This box is is capable of handling many thousands of concurrent office users. Regards Henrik
