Troy, What is the advantage of getting dual processors on a server running Novell and Rbase? I thought only Windows servers used that extra processor, and Rbase does all the processing on the station, or am I missing something?
Mike Troy Sosamon wrote: > Mike, > > I have 6 Compaq servers. I retired one the other day due to old age. It has > been up and running without missing a day of service for 7 years. It has been > running Novell and at one point it had over a year of continueous up time. I > had to take it down to move some stuff. It was a 486 with dual 4 gig scsi > drives. > > I have 5 other Compaq servers that have been running without problems for > years. I had a hard drive go out on a new server 3 years ago, and a tape > drive died a couple of months ago. Both components were under warrenty, and > neither one caused missing any production up time. > > If I were going to buy a new server tomorrow, I would get a dual processor > Compaq with hot swapable hard drives. You can get a good server for $3000, or > you may want to spend more. You get what you pay for. Get 10,000 rpm hot > swapable scsi drives. More drives are better that larger drives. You can > mirror or stripe them take your pick. If you are going to stripe the drives > spend some money and get a good array disk controller. I think all of the > servers any more come with error correcting memory. > > Troy Sosamon > Denver, Co. > > >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== > >One of my customers wants to upgrade to a new server. All he does is run > Rbase > >(very loyal!). He asked me for an opinion regarding Compaq servers (like the > >ML350) vs Dell servers (like the Power Edge 2500). > > > >I don't have a clue! The machines have the same specs (RAID 5, 512 meg of > RAM, > >1.26 GHz Pentium III, etc). Anybody got any experience? > > > >TIA! > > > >Mike Sinclair > > Troy Sosamon > Denver Co > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
