Theoretical Samba File Server

[Brian Kelsay]

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" <bkelsay at home.com>
To: <sbrendtro at home.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
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
>