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Originally Posted by bendsley
file serving is more processor intensive than ram intensive.
but sata, scsi is going to obviously be faster than ide.
Debian + Samba = file serving goodness.
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Bingo. You can tune network & filesystem buffers to saturate RAM but for the most part you'll be saturating network bandwidth. The disks will be coasting for everything but directory searches.
Samba rocks.
I use fbsd w/samba whenever it makes sense, but I wouldn't bother without:
1) the need for more than you can fit in your system - something beyond one more HD mechanism. or...
2) the need for redundant or special filesystems. or...
3) the need for multiple system access to the same files. Giving one or more other users access to your local disk space can have incredibly annoying performance effects.