File server and mail server on usb-hdd is it possible?

Question

Mail server

The director had a crazy idea to organize a file and mail server for our company (There are only 5 computers in our office)) wired network with a D-link DIR-632 router. It has a usb 2.0 port. Attention question: By connecting an external hard drive to this port and sharing it, we get something like a file server, for the implementation of the mail server, googling found a simple solution Courier Mail Server Installing it on this hard drive will we get the desired result?

Answer 1

better not worth it.
There are two options for your task:
1. Buy a computer based on Atom - they drove Linux on it.
2. Buy an old computer of any degree of destruction - they drove Linux to it.
All other options may be easier and cheaper to implement at the beginning, but then it will be more expensive and more difficult to redo.

Answer 2

If it should still work fine, then it's better not to. Read/write speeds to disk will be slow.

Answer 3

Yes, in principle, speed is not so important, some documents will be dumped there a couple of times a day, nothing particularly heavy will lie there. I'm more interested in the mail server, will it work?

Answer 4

If on the router it is still possible to normally raise a file washer, then the mail server on this one can be raised if it is real, then it will not work very quickly - routers often have 16-32 megabytes of memory and a very weak processor with a frequency of around 200 MHz - there is not much it is necessary, due to the fact that they consume 5-10 watts of power.
the most sane option is to buy an inexpensive computer on an atom, put it in a corner, set it up and forget it.

Answer 5

I have a D-Link 620 with alternative firmware at home: there is also a file washer, and I installed and configured a lightweight Xmail
mail server. True, I got 2 mail accounts (for my wife and myself), but I think it will also pull on 5 machines.

Answer 6

buy a NAS, and you will store backups and documents, and even the cheapest two-disk dlink can be a web server

Answer 7

I correctly understood that the topikstarter wants to put the mail server under win32 on the hard drive, and the router should somehow implement it?

Answer 8

You will get the desired result if you just do mail (all your five mailboxes) on Google Apps and don't listen to your director with his crazy ideas about usb hdd :)