Configuring an older server for speed...

[Wojciech Puchar]

>> As a benchmark, there are about 230 people in my site who will be

it's strange. my squid supports 300 users, with just 3 partitions on 3 
drives (and other part of drives used for other things). and it EASILY do 
this.
>
> To further extend the question - what about things like mounting the
> RAID0 noatime, or other speed-enhancing settings? I've been reading

noatime and soft dependencies.