On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:48:01AM -0600, Keith Bachman wrote: > I'm looking at 1-2 320GB drives or better, I would have no problem > dedicating one of them for this purpose. Or perhaps I acquire one of those > Raptor 150GB 10k SATA drives? Size matters more than speed, especially with plenty of RAM, as most of the time will be spent in uncompressing and writting files to disk - if you install FreeBSD from the CDROM, you will see that it "acquires" files from the source at hundeds of kb/s. Since one of the options for location is the U of M and hauling monitors over large distance is not something I'm really good at I was thinking to bring a SUN Blade 100 - it takes IDE drives and can be controlled via the serial port. 120 GB doesn't sound like much nowadays, but if we add: Ubuntu 1 CD Debian 3 CDs Fedora 4 CDs SuSE 5 CDs Slackware NaN Floppies and multiply by 3 (i386, AMD64, PPC) we are talking under 50 GBs anyway. We can set up a squid to use the other 50 GBs and increase the size limit for the cacheable files. florin -- Don't question authority: they don't know either! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060308/922509f1/attachment.pgp