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Originally Posted by JStergis  I didn't feel like messing with an OS reinstall. Since it was the same chipset on this board (Intel G31) it booted fine and the only missing driver was the ethernet. Maybe eventually I'll push it back. I can't even imagine how well 2000 would fly with 4 GB of RAM and a dual core processor.
XPs not too bad once I get rid of all the prettiness. I just set it to "adjust for best performance" and it takes care of all the stupid animations and colors. I can't stand the transparent desktop icons, for instance, because I can't read any of the titles with some wallpapers.
Mine is an 866 MHz PIII with three 160 GB Western Digitals, two in a mirrored RAID array for consistent backups, and one as the boot drive (which I only use 2 GB out of). I fail to see how people say 160 GB isn't enough in a home server. I use 30 of it. Even at the high school, the main academic server only has a 60 GB in it, and it's not too much more than half full. Granted, they have about 8 146 GB drives in the proxy server and about 20 servers in the whole district, but I just don't see how people use so much space.
SATA would be nice, but my server transfers at about 11 MB/sec over the network so if I go too much further I'll just hit the 100mbit bottleneck anyway. To go to gigabit, I'd have to replace the router, all the switches, at least some of the wiring (there's some old CAT5, not CAT5e in places), and lan cards in 2-3 of the computers. Not worth the hassle. |
Hm, sounds like you run pretty lean J, Mine is not so lean, i use around 300-350 gb on mine, that is complete with drive images which take up a large chunk of space as i keep a few images on it. I just run a standard lan and with my sister simultaneously running her backup batch moving a gig of data im getting around 3-4mbps according to winvista. One oddity I notice is that it does not seem to like copying huge files, i mean upwords of 700 mbps like when i tried to copy my win7 iso to my laptop for burning it would die out after about 1 gb of copying saying that the semaphore period had expired, very strange. I notice alot of the lan issues i come across have to do between xp and vista, xp to xp is just fine and dandy. Seems vista doesnt like its older bretheren as much. I dont run raid like you do, i have my extra backups offsite and they only use 60 gb of data at the moment. However, that does not hold all the file backup versions i keep on my server therefore increasing needed storage. What i did do however with my sata card was install 2 hds, one the big terabyte is only a data drive on the server box used as storage where the other, small 80 gb drive supports its operating system and applications. I figured running 2 drives as once may help as it can help balance work between data access and operating system saving work on the drive heads because if the operating system is doing somthing and a user makes a request to shared files over network i was afraid that it would affect network speed because the drive is busy doing something else. This way both can do things simultaneously with minimal impact on the other. So i balance drive load with dual drives.
Anyway, im thinking of possibly tracking down those older p4 dells with the built in sata for mine. This way things like scans, spinrite checks, etc will run smoothly as they will have a cpu with some decent power in it.
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