This is our servers. It work pretty well.
Clone:
Dual P3 800Mhz Coppermine, 1 GB Ram, 3 U160 IBM SCSIs, Apadtec 39160 SCSI
card (2 channel, with one channel for OS, web server, cold fusion and the
second channel for the other two hard drives for data.)
Only programs running: NT4/SP5, Website Pro2.5, Cold Fusion 4.01, Anti
Virus, Diskkeeper.
At 03:23 PM 12/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
> I need a new server... and had a couple of questions..
>
>1. What is the difference between a "server" and "tower"?
>2. How important is it to use SCSI drives vs. the new ATA/100 drives, which
>are much cheaper?
>
>It comes down to choices.. I could go for:
>dell poweredge server with dual 800mhz pentium III with dual 18gig SCSI
>drives and 256 megs ram
>or
>a "clone" - tower case, high quality power supply, dual 1,000mhz pentium
>III with dual 40 gig ATA/100 drives and 512 megs ram.
>
>Is the "server" designation and scsi drives worth getting lower ram and
>processor speed?
>
>
>I will use it for cold fusion / web server and also real video server.
>I will be using Windows 2000 server - I assume that you can mirror ATA/100
>drives with windows 2000? No?
> Nothing really mission critical on the server.
>I will be using the old web server as a SQL server. (dell poweredge dual
>600mhz / 256 megs ram / dual 9 gig scsi drives) and retiring the current
>sql server (Dell poweredge single 300mhz, 128 megs ram:)
>
>thanks
>Al Musella, DPM
>Musella Foundation
>
>
>
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