[oclug] Need advice on server specs

[Andrew Hutton]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:17:39AM -0500, Matt Larose wrote:
> I'm not going to comment on what distro to use, because I always suggest
> to use the one that you're familiar with. But for hardware what I would
> suggest is an AMD Duron/Athlon with a Abit KT7-Raid and two or three Fast
> IDE drives.  Or if he's looking for more performance go with scsi and

Why go with SCSI?  It's simply expensive and slow if you don't NEED the
shared-media aspects.

The idea that SCSI is better/faster than IDE is *FALSE*, on the right
hardware IDE far outscales SCSI up to about 500G.

-- 
Andrew J. Hutton, 
Ottawa Linux Symposium, International Linux Developers Conference
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/    July 25th-28th, 2001