Hardware Recommendations for LTSP

[Deven Phillips]

Warren,

	Take a look at the Kingston 32-Port managed switches for about $650.
They work great for us at Viata, and they have the capability for the
later addition of fiber or matrix-stacking.

	As for the tape drive, we use VXA-1 tape drives from Ecrix from
ecrix.com. They are fully supported on Linux, and they are quite fast
for the price. 66GB, with hardware compression. Drive run about $900
each.

Deven Phillips, CISSP
Network Architect
Viata Online, Inc.

Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> I need to buy 10/100 ethernet switches, high capacity tape drives for the
> Linux Terminal Servers that I will be putting into several schools.  Any
> recommendations on these pieces of hardware?
> 
> For the switches I don't need any management features like disabling ports.
> I'm aware that the generics will probably flake out at high capacity, but
> thin client traffic should not go anywhere near those levels.
> 
> I've been looking at:
> 3Com 10/100 24port unmanaged about $600
> SMC 10/100 24port unmanaged about $170
> 
> For the tape drives a colleague of mine recommended 4mm DAT.  A quick glance
> at egghead.com showed these drives at $1,000+.  Anyone have any
> recommendations regarding this?  I need massive amounts of backup capacity.
> 
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
> 
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