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

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:31:24 -0500

        OK, I'll reply inline...

At 12:05 PM 12/29/99 -0500, Tom R. wrote:
>
>
>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??

        Yes, and no: The more RAM you give to the non-paged pool, the faster the
machine would run. I've seen a Prosignia 500 with 176 MB of RAM & rePentium
120 waste a PII-333 with 48 MB of RAM. In short, the more RAM you have, the
more NT will use as disk buffers.

>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.

        1:1000 so you'll need 18 MB just to keep track of 18 gigs.

>> 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.

        If you only have 2 drives, software (driver level) RAID is fine... Just
Control-click on the partitions and select Create Mirror Volume; then
Commit Changes and format to NTFS with 4096 byte clusters - No more, no
less. [Using over 4096 byte cluster size will disable the MoveFile API.]

        Cheers!
        Dan

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