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________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Tue Sep 28 10:31:10 2010 Subject: RE: Small server Yeah, I know. Doesn’t make it any less frustrating. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small server Sounds like a bad batch of drives, which could happen with any drive type/vendor. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I’m surely not very happy with SATA right now. I got in two R300’s with loads-o-disk as DPM2010 servers for a client last week and I’ve already had 4 SATA drives die. WTF?!?! Makes me want to return the whole thing… Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com<http://theessentialexchange.com/> From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small server curious, why do you shun SATA ? On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:14 AM, James Kerr <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Kind of important software. I would make sure the server was hardware RAID1 with 2 hot swap SAS drives NOT SATA at a minimum just for the redundancy. No software RAID. Whats wrong with SCSI? James ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Aldrich" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08 AM Subject: RE: Small server Sorry. I guess I should have specified this is for Kronos Time Keeper Central. Server hardware requirements are very basic. It has to be capable of running Windows 2000. It's not a very resource-intensive software. It's got a small DB and has to be capable of allowing multiple people to access it over the network (via "client" software loaded on their machine) The machine that's currently running the time and attendance software is a P4 2.8Ghz with 2 Gig of RAM running Windows 2000. My main problem is that it's running off a single HDD, and a SCSI drive at that. Cut/paste from the system requirements document: 750 Mhz+ 1 Gigabyte NT4 , 2000 Server 2003 Server 1 Gigabyte Free disk space. As you can see it's very basic requirements. TKC has not been updated in a LONG time and probably won't be updated ever again. I spoke with a support engineer, and he said that he's seen it running on Windows XP, but that's not supported, as XP is not a "server" O/S, which is required for multiple clients accessing the machine at one time. Thanks... Hope this answers your questions WRT system requirements. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Small server Once again you give us absolutely no app requirements. Therefore the answer is: maybe. -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Small server I am looking at getting a small server running Windows Server 2003, so I can have my time and attendance running on a supported O/S. Looking at Dell's Premier site, the least expensive option only offers a Software RAID5, unless I'm mis-reading the options. Would you guys rather have a Hardware RAID0 / RAID1 or a software RAID5? Any other options I should be looking at for a small server? 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