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I'm looking at the current configuration. I think it looks like a pretty solid deal - what do you guys think?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. If you could estimate what this would cost, as well, then I can compare the actual final price to what you think it should be.
Intel® Celeron® Processor 326 at 2.53GHz, 256K Cache, 533MHz FSB
Microsoft® Small Business Server 2003, Standard Edition
2GB DDR2,533MHz, 4x512MB Single Ranked DIMMs
HD1 - 80GB, Serial ATA, 1 inch, 7.2K RPM, Hard Drive
HD2 - 80GB, Serial ATA, 1 inch, 7.2K RPM, Hard Drive
On-board Single Port Gigabit Network Adapter
48x CDRW/DVD IDE Combo Drive, Half-Height, TSST
2nd Hard Drive 80GB, Serial ATA, 1 inch, 7.2K RPM,
Onboard SATA, 2 Drives Connected to Onboard SATA Controller
Chassis with Non-Hot Swap Drives for PE830
I'm not too knowledgable about SATA, hot-swapping and all of that stuff, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
We've been running off XP professional - around 10 users - and it's become ridiculously slow, as you'd expect. :)
That said, last time I was working with a system like this it was running on NT (I've been working with Linux ever since) so YMMV.
Don't forget to think about a backup solution, including offsite backups (in case the office burns down).
hth, a.
Carefully check the database requirements for any applications, SQL Server Licences are completely different form SQL Server SBS Licences.
One of the big lead tracking systems doesnt work with SQL on SBS, you need a proper SQL Licence.
SBS is much better now, but its still limited to configuring with wizards, not everything in Windows Server can be done using the wizards in SBS so be careful, if you have any non-standard config it may not work.
If your Windows,SQL, Exchanges and ISA Server Licences are all SBS variants or OEM then its not such a good deal is it?
>If you could estimate what this would cost
Depends on the licences and the hardware vendor. Is it Dell or HP/Compaq? Or a DIY/Noname
