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

Tim Scoff(casper[at]nb.net)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:19:24 -0500

> As for the RAM:
>
> Buy more RAM...
>
> It's Cheaper Than Therapy!

        It's also much cheaper than paying your graphic artists to
sit around and wait for the server to catch up to their requests for
data instead of working.

> 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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