SAMBA disk recommendations for a YDL G4

[Rick Thomas]

Ken,

Be careful if you install a bunch of drives internal to the G4 chasis
that you don't overload the machine's power supply.

You may want to look at putting drives in an external powered chasis for
this reason.  There are some interesting boxes on the market that take a
bunch of (relatively) cheap IDE drives and RAID them, then talk to a
SCSI interface - looking like a single huge (logical) disk to the host computer.

Rick

Ken Lubar wrote:
> 
> We are planning to move our primary file server (currently ASIP on a G3) to
> YellowDog on a G4-450/with AGP. What is the recommendation for disks and
> controllers for running the machine as a file server?  We need about 40 GB
> of "RAIDed" storage and about 250 GB of static storage (online copies of
> backup CD that never get written and could be restored from the CDs if
> needed).  We will have about 40 PC clients (running Windows XP/2000).  This
> machine will also need to support about 6 Mac clients (so we will also be
> running Netatalk 2.0).
> 
> Cost is a factor... I don't think I can spring for 10K SCSI drives and
> controllers...so I'm looking for recommendations for raided (or even
> non-raided) ATA or SATA drives & controllers that are well supported and
> work well on the G4.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Ken Lubar
> EMI Strategic Marketing