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

Tom Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:05:03 -0500

tom lyczko 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
>
> 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??

I've heard that too but your 18GB HDs will need RAM too. Somewhere I've
seen something about how to figure how much RAM you need on an NT server
and I know one of the major factors is size of HD.

> 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???

It will be very slow until you up the RAM. I'd guess you should at
least double what you've got in RAM. WE have a PowerEdge 4200 with
512MB of RAM, six 9GB HDs, DLT and of course SFM.

> p.s. where can i find out how to set up RAID for NT????? and whether i need
> raid 0, 1, or 5????

Our PowerEdge came with a RAID built in and we create a RAID 50 (pair of
RAID 5s) from the built in six 9GB hard drives.
   
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