At 05:25 AM 12/16/2003, Jude Maghirang wrote:

>Good morning, > >We are planning to upgrade our Windows SAS server and we have a choice >of 2 machines that are being re-tasked within our organization. I >would appreciate anyone's opinion on which would be best for our >purposes. We currently have a 4 processor 700MHz Pentium 2 Xeon/3 GB >RAM server for our 25 SAS users. These are the choices for upgrade: > >Server A: 8 processor 800 MHz Pentium 3 Xeon/8 GB RAM > >Server B: 2 processor 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon/2 GB RAM (RAM can be >increased, would appreciate your input on optimum RAM) > >All setups are Windows 2000 to be upgraded to Server 2003 in the near >future. > >Either machine would be an improvement over our current machine, but I >was just wondering if anyone out there has had any experience, good or >bad, with either of these alternative setups. > >Thanks in advance. > >Jude Maghirang >United Network for Organ Sharing

Hey Jude:

I, like Tim Allen, think more power is better, however, you might check out:

http://www.intel.com/products/roadmap/index.htm

for a link on the right-hand side for processor performance comparisons (and then select the Server tab, as Desktop comes up as the default).

To me, I'd also want to know how the disks are setup, i.e., how many drives/spindles, RAID vs. no-RAID, etc., before making a final descision.

HTH,

Later

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