just specking up a new server

[McBunny]

to run autodesk vault and auto deskdata center and autodesk product stream, forte financial software, sales logix sales software and sql 2000/5


Two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon™ processors at 2.8GHz with 2x2MB L2 cache
4GB DDR2 SDRAM Memory (4x1GB 400MHz single rank DIMMs)
3.5" Internal Floppy Disk Drive
CD-RW/DVD
2 x 36gb 15krpm disks
4 x 146gb 10krpm disks
PERC 4e/Di embedded dual channel RAID controller (256MB of battery backed cache)
C12 RAID 1 and RAID 5 arrays on split backplane
win2k3 etc etc

should so ok i hope :s

 

[Lee]

I speced one up the other day with similar spec only it's got 6 x 300gb 10krpm disks. I just hope that's enough space, it's an art repository server.

 

[Darren S]

McBunny - we've got a dual Xeon Proliant server here (including 8GB mirrored memory) - purely for SQL2000. It doesn't get that stressed out, even though with 15k SCSI disks, it sometimes gets a little bogged down. That's purely for our financial package too. God knows how it would cope with AutoDesk stuff on it too. Would it not have been better to get two decent servers than one mammoth one?

D.

 

[McBunny]

darren yes it would but my manager wants to keep down the ammount of servers we have (he knows nothing about anything really) also at only about 5.5k its not too much considering we just made 40 people redundant

 

[Lee]

If you really want to get in his good books saving some cash you can get some cracking deals here: http://www1.serversource.co.uk/

We used them in the past when we were a struggling independent with no money. lol

 

[McBunny]

shame you cant spec the dell ones from what i can see

 

[Gareth]

shame you cant spec the dell ones from what i can see

that's what i was looking for, can't find it.

 

[Lee]

shame you cant spec the dell ones from what i can see

You can, they will build it to the exact spec you want. I've had 3 servers from there now, and the support is spot on too. Give them a call and they'll have a quote with you in 10 minutes.