Re: old computer-file server

Rod Speed wrote:
Josh <traygo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Got several old door-stops laying around, vintage PII-266, PII-300,
and a PII-350.

a couple of months ago, I couldn't resist buying 3 Seagate 160gb HD's
on sale for $40 apiece. I had figured I would be selling them to
friends/family/somebody, but everybody I know is just buying new
Dell's (don't get me started on Dell's). So, rather than have them
collect dust forever, I'm thinking of turning one or two of those old
PII'2 into a file server, using a Promise Ultra133 card.

Anyone have an opinion as to: How much would these old CPU's
bottleneck file transfer? They will be running win2000. Thought of
Linux, but I believe the latest distro's (Red Hat & Suse anyway) have
higher hardware requirements?

I'd rather save these HD's as "new, still in shrink wrap" rather than
try them out and then see the PII's aren't going to be able to handle
it.


As a side note, gb NIC's are cheap now, and gb (1000mbps)
switches aren't too bad, thought upgrading my home network.


Thoughts?


More modern systems are generally a lot less hassle memory wise.

Even P3 socket 7 systems can be a pain in the arse unless you use simms.



P3s are socket 370 (or Slot-1) and, except for perhaps some funky PCChips motherboards that might have been made with SIMMs, are either SDRAM or the aborted Intel Rambus.

The last Intel socket 7 CPU was the Pentium 233MMX.

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