Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700
"michael" <michael@etalon.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote
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> > 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.?
>
> Probably about 100-150 workstations.
> This server will also run proxy, email and web, but my main concern
> was NFS as I'm kinda new to it.
Sorry to join this thread a little late, but do you really need all of
those services on one server? I consider it a pretty big security risk
to have private data files on a public e-mail/web server. If it were up
to me, I would be looking into a way to get 2 cheap servers instead of
1 expensive server.
HTH,
Jacob
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