Re: [WinMac] how to justify a memory upgrade??????????/

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:35:03 -0500

        Since you have only two drives, you must set it up as a RAID Level 1
(Mirroring). Just set it up in Disk Administrator - NT's built-in "RAID
Toolkit!"

        As for the RAM:

                Buy more RAM...

                        It's Cheaper Than Therapy!

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 08:18 AM 12/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>to a "suit"?? smile!!
>
>i work for a small graphic design company which is just finally getting an
NT server, which i will have to take care of -- thank goodness for this
list and the mac-NT list!!! (thanks to dan schwartz too)
>
>anyhow, it is a poweredge 2300 server with 128 megs ram, 2 scsi 18-gig
drives, and whatever else it has...500 mhx pentium-3, tape drive, cdrom, etc.
>
>main reason i am concerned about memory is that i have to run SFM services
for macintosh and i have read that it's a memory hog...TRUE??
>
>main usage at first will be file sharing, then various other things later
on...intranet?? who knows??
>
>i think 128 megs of ram is anemic, but how can i explain/justify this in
layman's terms???
>
>thank you!!!
>
>:) tom
>
>p.s. where can i find out how to set up RAID for NT????? and whether i
need raid 0, 1, or 5????
>(i don't know if my boss (who doesn't know much about computers, let alone
NT/windows) will want raid or not...)
>
>hopefully with my forthcoming seat-of-the-pants experience, i can answer
some questions later on...the mac-NT list was quite helpful with regard to
SFM...
>
>--
>tom@visualwave.com

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