Re: hardware requirements for SBS

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Hi Itan.

Personally I would recommend to make fast HDD drives (10k minimum) and HDD redundancy (RAID 1 or RAID 5) as a priority.
Anything else is secondary for SBS in a such small environment.
I think any modern single-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM will do (of course more RAM is always better, especially if the file sharing would be mostly used)

As for the banking software, it really depends on the type of the software it is.
It is hard to recommend something here when I don't have a slightest idea what it does, how it works and how and by whom would be used :)

Hope this helps,
Jevgenij

"Itan Barmes" <ItanBarmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:438B8EC8-FFB7-4659-B042-5654EB4A8497@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi All
I want to install SBS in a small office environment and wondered if anyone
can recommend what kind of hardware i need.

3 desktops
1 laptop
2 users connecting from the internet (web outlook)
one network printer

5 exchange mailboxes
ISA server (havent understood yet the advantages of ISA of windows firewall)
Sharepoint
Office administration software (used by 2 people)
question: i have an internet banking software, is it smart to install it on
the server?

I dont have a large budget but system failure is not an option (whats new)

Thanks in advance
Itan


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