A friend is about to buy a new server, and he has been offered a Fujitsu TX300S6 with Windows Server 2008 R2. The offered server has 16GB RAM, and will use RAID-1 or RAID-10 (controller has 512MB cache) with 15krpm SAS disks. Xeon E5620 (quad core) with 12MB cache. The old server has two 2GHz Xeon processors with 512KB cache (nearly 8 years old), and runs Win2k (Pro, I believe) with Firebird 1.5 SuperServer.
If we choose to run Firebird 2.5 64bit I assume SuperClassic would be a natural choice. Or SuperServer still? The databases are 1GB and 8GB (light use, mostly blobs with jpg pictures). 20-ish users (probably about 10 concurrent users). Sometimes intensive use, but that is almost all select. Insert/update/delete are seldom done in batch mode. What should I choose, what can I expect (of interesting things). Anything in particular to look out for? TiA Aage J.
