is this overkill?

[cripy]

I just wanted to know if the motherboard/cpu's I have running is overkill for a storage system.

Dual Intel Xeon 2.4GHz
Asus PC-DL Deluxe
2gigs PC3200 Corsair XMS Memory
6x 250gig Seagate 7200rpm 8mb Cache HDD's on Raid 5
Adaptec Raid 5 IDE Raid Controller
40 gig western digital hdd (os drive)
running SuSE 9.3 Pro w/ webmin/samba share XFS File system.

if I should change anything let me know. a lot of people tell me I am wasting the processing power.

[wizard james]

while..not sure what your going to store on all that space..but..

Dual Intel Xeon 2.4GHz for "just"??? storage is a little.. over kill. i think..just a 2.4 ghz cpu will work just fine..and cost alot less

2 gigs of ram.. depends if its just a storage server if i is all u need is 512 mb..1 gig the most. (more ram is only needed if your runing more programs at one time.. and since its not windows being run.. not alot of ram is needed to start with)

now if its going to be a every day computer.. well.. woot go for the power lol

o and WELCOME TO THE FOURMS :welcome:

[JCLW]

I run 4x Seagate 7200.7s on a Celeron 2.6 (330J). I don't think you'll need all that CPU power if it is just serving files. The only reason why you might want a Xeon board is for PCI-X, but you can pick up a desktop board now with PCIe ethernet (leaving you with 100 MB/s+ available on the PCI bus for a RAID controller). As most gigabit ethernet systems will rarely hit 80 MB/s this is more then enough PCI bandwidth for most people.

Mine is a Celeron 330J (2.6ghz) on an Asus i915 board with onboard Marvell Yukon PCIe gigabit ethernet. 512MB memory. Four Seagate 7200.7s on a Promise S150 SX4 RAID 5 w/a 256MB cache module. It is neither memory nor CPU limited.

[cripy]

I guess ill use my old p4 2.4C, just gotta find a motherboard :x

[Speciale]

My 350mhz PII seems to store files just as well as i'd like it to ;)

[Dukeman]

That level of system is really for running oracle or another major server app for small to medium amount of users.