One other thing, since a couple of people have spoke about bottlenecks at the bus, you may want to get a mother board for the server that has a couple of 66 MHz PCI slots an get U160 SCSI drives that spin at 10K RPM or 15 K RPM and maybe split the drives up to be on separate controllers. The Adaptec SCSI controllers I used in a server project supported 66 MHz and it made a noticeable difference. Now that I think about it the the motherboard we went with might have had 64-bit capability also, but I could be wrong. Here's Dlink's spec page since I went there. http://www.dlink.com/../../products/adapters/dfe570tx/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kelsay" To: ; Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Theoretical Samba File Server > You might look into a single network card with multiple interfaces. I > saw one in Micro Warehouse catalog that had four NICs built into one > card. You might not have room for four NICs and you might have trouble > w/ the IRQs and I/O addresses. Then again you might have the same > trouble with my suggestion, but it is worth looking into. > > Adaptec makes a four port card called the Quartet. I saw it on > pricewatch.com for $349. > > Brian Kelsay >