Re: Application Fonts on SBS Server rather than workstations

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"MWE Computers Services" <mwecomputers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> So possibly just upgrading all the PCs to higher CPUs, faster ram (i.e.
> DDR2) and possibly SCSI 10k rpm HDs would be the better solution for the
> workstations due to the way the applications process fonts, etc?
>
> Just trying to get ideas to make these design workstations be instant 
> rather
> than time consumers. Then I will focus on the SBS deployment for all their
> data file, backup and e-mail needs.
>

There is software to manage fonts so they do not have to be loaded every 
time.

Other than that, there should be no less than 2GB of RAM... I would specify 
4GB RAM, speed irrelevant and /3GB /USERVA:3030 setting in boot.ini. If you 
want this to be even faster, RAID0 stripe for the pagefile and application 
temporary storage location (the only time I tolerate a RAID0 is for 
temporary rendering, which is what your requirement is).

SATA 10K RPM drives should be sufficient, although since you only need high 
performance for temporary files, you may want some small 15K RPM SCSI 
drives, as they are quite cheap in smaller capacities.

I would try investing in a fonts management software first, then RAM, and 
only after that the extra disks.

For screaming performance, 64-bit dual-code opterons on XP 64-bit. :-)
-- 
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