Re: Minimum specs for SBS 2003 Premium

9GB would be a bit tight for SBS OS partition. Theoretically you can move
the program installation point away from 'C:\Program Files' but there's been
a few gotchas over the years from doing so. Look at a minimum 14GB and a
comfortable 18GB.

Historically, I've been against SATA drives in servers. I find performance
and reliability of SCSI drives to be better. I must admit that I'm almost at
the point of changing my tune, NCQ (Native Command Queueing) is maturing on
SATA and drive manufacturers are quoting higher MTBF figures and offering
SCSI comparable warranty periods based on 24*7 use.

Most SATA RAID controllers are RUBBISH. They have basic management features
and minimal monitoring software. Higher end cards with SCSI RAID like
management and monitoring cost similar to the SCSI cards.

I'm not defecting yet.

"Chuckak" <Chuckak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A3A11B50-83AC-4400-85B9-354BBEF47821@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Forgot to add to previous reply. Have used SATA with W2k server and it
worked fine. You may want to add another RAID controller and drives to
create a RAID 5 array. Use this to separate all your user data from the
OS.
I have a pair of 9.1 gig drives mirrored for the OS and 3 more RAID 5
arrays
of 9.1s and 18 gig drives for the data drives. With 20 users you probably
won't see any difference with the processor upgrade. - I am running
Pentium
Pro 200 - MHZ processors and it works fine.
--
Chuck


"DC" wrote:

Hi,

We are being offered a great deal on a HP server with SBS 2003 Premium.
Specs are:

HP ProLiant ML310 G3 Server + Microsoft Small Business Server - Premium
Edition
* Intel Pentium 4 Processor 640, 3.2GHz
* Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Small Business Server - Premium Edition
* 2GB RAM
* Four port SATA controller with integrated SATA RAID 0, 1
* 2 x 80GB Hot Plug SATA 7,200rpm Hard Drive
* Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) Standard Management

I'm thinking about upgrading to the Pentium D option. The server would
mostly be used for file and print and email (we do a lot of email).
However ISA may also be used to terminate a VPN and to publish OWA. It
may also be used as a web proxy (although I'm tempted to install Squid
on our firewall).

We have less than 20 users.

Is this box likely to be adequate for the task? I haven't used SATA RAID
controllers before. Are there likely to be any issues with them?

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks.



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