it really makes no difference per se from the way you made your query...

my system can easily handly 1,000KB/s down...very easily...I rarely see that, but sometimes I do...

basically, the point I am trying to make is this: with the amount of BW you are going to see, just about any modern system will deal with it...the real limit is your internet connection...

now, as far as long term issues, there will be some...like let's say you are constantly uploading data from a specific drive...that's a lot of reads on the platters, aka wear and tear...heat is also a big issue as it will affect performance and the life of your parts...a good setup would include different physical drives for downloading and uploading, I usually share from a different drive than my OS is on, and I download to my OS drive usually...

RAID, while a great thing for certain applications, is not necessary (IMHO) for filesharing (unless perhaps you have a 1MB/s+ upstream (which means you would be a very popular d00d for sure)...

simply put, a good system that is well configured to operate effeciently is about all you need....512MB Ram would be a minimum in my opinion (I've got 2 sticks of 512 running in dual channel mode)

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