Re: hardware requirements for SBS
- From: "Jevgenij Martynenko" <jevgenij_martynenko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:44:42 +0300
I thought the same about the HDDs at first, but practise shown; we had performance issues with file sharing and the server in general, especially during backup times (had to do them few times a day). But dual-core CPU is 10% up MAXIMUM.
So you can get really simple and cheap Motherboard and CPU, but put more $$$ to the disks subsystem.
What are you space requirmenets, btw? Good practise is to reserve 50GB for the OS itself. AFAIK SATA 10K rpm disks are only available in size of 150 GB.
I would also say that RAID 1 or 5 is a must! Entry-level server motherboards has SATA RAID controllers nowadays. The cost of 1 HDD you are using for the mirror/parity in case of RAID is much lower, than the case you get HDD failure on non-RAID server.
I would also agree with Brian (see his post) about backup disk. Get the cheapest largest drive you can get and put your backups on it (400GB is OK on price/space ratio). It can even be internal, but if you are sure that somebody is going to take those backups offsite - purchase USB. Tape Drive is not so convienient and is a waste of money.
If I understand you correctly, the software has no server-side components - client simply uses server as a file storage and all operations are performed on the client?
In this case, it doe nothing bad to the security and putting files on the server will make the backup process easier.
Hope this helps,
Jevgenij
"Itan Barmes" <ItanBarmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:64CB4B8C-5909-4545-AB97-7B74ACA6863A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is raid hardware and 10k disks not a bit over the top for me? how reliable is
mirroring? remember that its a very small office.
If you have any brands to recommend please tell me.
About the internet banking software, its a software you can install on a
destop and using folder shares you can let other authorized users do
transactions. It is not a server-client software in the real sense of the
word. Basically it uses folder share, can it pose any security threat?
"Jevgenij Martynenko" wrote:
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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