Re: Substantial upgrade of existing SBS server, advice sort

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@e67g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, suppliers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Thinking of going to something like a Xeon 5335 2G with 4G memory and
300G Raid0. May have one or two more clients. I would like to stay
with SBS although it will probably be a new license (old one is
OEM).

RAID - 0 is always a bad choice for a server.

Get a small server using Dual Quad Core CPU's or Dual Dual Core CPU's -
you want to have 2 CPU's, not just 2 cores.

Get 4GB RAM.

Get as many drives as the server will hold, they are cheap - 4 x XXX
drives in a RAID-5 or even two large drives in a RAID-1 is going to be a
LOT better than anything in RAID-0. Get a caching controller for the
RAID.



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