Sever Question

[todpod]

I have a imac laying around, I think its 400mhz g3, 10 gig hard drive etc. Its blueberry to. I was thinking of loading linux (ubantu probably) adding a big (300gig) fire wire hard drive and using it to serve files around my small network maybe 2 or three computers. How well would a computer like this work for an application like that.

 

[mgob]

for serving files not much CPU is needed 400mhz should be more than enough to do what you want it to do.

 

[todpod]

How about the fire wire hard drive, fast enough to keep up?

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: todpod
How about the fire wire hard drive, fast enough to keep up?

Firewire is 400mbps.

Ethernet is 100mbps.

It's 4x faster than it needs to be

 

[skisteven1]

The drive will be fast enough, but that's a /really/ old computer... It's certainly worth a shot -- though you may want to set it up on its own and see how well it works before investing in the drive.

 

[hopejr]

Should be fine. I've used Pentium 2's as server before and had no problems.

EDIT: notice what I'm using for a server (see sig).

 

[nweaver]

I have seen old Pentium Pro's used for simple samba stuff. SHould be fine.

 

[todpod]

Thanks for the info this seems to be the best solution.