I have this configuration
precision t3500
xeon quad core 2.66
24 gigs of ram
4+1 ethernet
This is a new build. I am planning to install pfsense, plus 2 or 3 2003 servers, plus 2 or 3 linux distros. Until now is fine but then I am not sure about installing essentials 2013 server. I want to use this as file server but I want to get good speeds like 100mb/sec between host and phscial clients on lan when doing file transfers. To achieve this I am willing to purchase 4x 2tb drives with raid card (bbu with cache).
What do you think about this? Could I get the speed that I want to get? Or performance wise how these machines will work together slow or fast?
I want to setup raid 0 with additional seperate drive to backup critical data.
Need your opinions... Thanks