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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:31:11 +0000, Trevor Best
wrote: So you're just trolling now? ... or were you suggesting the diskless fileserver? Re-read thread for why this comment was made. I'm not going to rehash it here! I'm up to speed, but you are just trolling, right? Hard drives fail in workstations. It's a risk. Hard drives fail in servers. It's a risk. People generally throw money at file servers, e.g. RAID to minimise the impact of such a failure, with RAID you'll either get fault tolerance (hot swap, very expensive) or high availability (require a shutdown period to replace faulty disk with no loss of data). If you don't "complicate" a file server in this way then you stand to lose all data since last backup when a hard drive fails. yes I'm familiar with raid, and haven't argued against it. If that's what "Lordy" thought I was arguing against then perhaps Lordy should've been a bit more expressive and the sub-topic could've been addressed. |
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I just can't believe that I've made it this far into the thread!! Sheesh!
lol It's almost like a train wreck! Doug "David Maynard" wrote in message ... kony wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:25:11 +0000, Trevor Best wrote: David Maynard wrote: Please! Listen to all the advice you've been given in the other replies! The fact that you even ask about Win XP (Windows Server 2003 would be a possibility), Why? Because it has 'server' in the name? Yes. What Dee said. Also because the machine won't grind to a halt when you copy files to/from it like the current workstation flavors of Windows do. Also it will allow expansion of your network, a workstation OS will limit you to 10 connections. Also it will allow you to set up a domain and manage users centrally. Also it allows bigger versions of certain server software to run, e.g. SQL Server Standard edition as opposed to Personal edition, which would limit you to 5 concurrent query threads and no replication publishing or worse, MSDE that will limit you to 2GB databases. Think about your client and their ability to expand. Also if you do go for Win2003, don't go for the Web edition, it really is XPee dressed up (10 user limit for file sharing connections, etc although I can't comment on it's performance in relation to using XPee as a file server, which is ****e). Now back up a bit and note that NONE of what you mention has been listed as a requirement. So far there's only two things for certain: 1) It will serve files for 2 fixed and 4 in/out mobile (Laptops) 2) Everyone seems relatively clueless about just how little it really takes to fileserve 2-6 clients. Excepting data backups (drive capacity), for all we know the job could be handled fine by a 486 box fished out of a dumpster and running win3.1 or (gasp) DOS. Hehe. Yes. That was the point of my question. Everyone is all fired up to create a massive corporate IS department and all the folks asked for is some file storage and backup. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole, for 'free' anyway, because I don't think they've thought out what they need, file sharing, security, document control, backup schedule, maintenance, up time, who runs it, or anything else, but that's another matter. My 'guess', since I've seen small groups do this, is they simply want a central file store with a regular backup schedule and nothing more than a caveat to the users "if you don't save your stuff here then it don't get backed up." Btw, you can now fish fully operational P233MX machines out of the dumpsters I got one. |
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I'll bet Remedy is sorry he asked, after reading all of the cat fight info
he generated. tom "Remedy" wrote in message ... I have been approached to build a server, to be used for file storage and backups. What is a server by definition and what specs and O/S should I be looking to provide the above? Is XP Pro sufficient? Current IT infrastructure comprises of 4 laptops + 2 desktops FTP Required also Please do not advise linux has I am not converse with it. Thank you. |
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