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Any need for a Hard Drive bigger then 20GB?

Like the subject says. I am planning on running ASG on a old Dell pc i have. Here are the specs. The only thing wrong with the Dell is the hard drive currently in it (12gb) is bad.

Dell Dimension 4200
733 Mhz
256-512mb ram
3Comm NIC
DLink NIC

Now I currently am running another ASG on a old HP pavilion with the following specs:

Hp Pavilion
733mhz
368mb ram
20gb hard drive
2 3Comm NICs
1 Realtek NIC

So my question to everyone is will I benefit in this machine a hard drive bigger then 20GB or will I essentially be wasting a hard drive? Seems like my HP machine is only using about half of the 20GB's currently.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

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0 BarryG over 17 years ago

A bigger drive will have more room for the HTTP proxy cache, which would make a difference if you have a lot of users or a slow connection.
Also, you can retain logs longer.

Otherwise, 20GB is fine.

Barry
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0 BarryG over 17 years ago in reply to BarryG

368MB is rather low RAM, especially if you're gonna run v7.
It might be OK if you don't use any proxies.

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0 BarryG over 17 years ago in reply to BarryG

368MB is rather low RAM, especially if you're gonna run v7.
It might be OK if you don't use any proxies.

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0 BrucekConvergent over 17 years ago in reply to BarryG

Yeah, the RAM is the big deal here... you need at least 512MB to run efficiently, 1GB or 768MB is better. As cheap as RAM is nowadays, it's a good idea to jump it up to at least 1GB.

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0 cleight over 17 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

I have 386mb of ram in the current machine, which is running the following:
dns, http proxy, smtp proxy,dhcp, ids, ssl vpn, remote access, etc. and the system runs fine. Even with Xbox live running and 3 other pc's on the internet at the same time.

So for my setup the ram in the current machine is not a problem but the other one I am building will prob have 512mb of ram.

Thanks for the information guys about the hard drives Looks like I will use 20-30gb drive.
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0 Simon Shaw over 17 years ago in reply to cleight

Is the old machine running v7.*** ??
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