Must4ng Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 We're thinking of building a new server box for a 15 workstation SBS 2000 network. I'm wondering if anyone has had expeience using SATA drives in a server environment.We are a small private non-profit corporation, so funds are limited. We have 4 workstations running Quickbooks & Excel 2002 on the accounting side; the rest of the workstations for program staff mainly use Word and to a lesser degree Excel. Outlook is of course the email client.<speculation> Our load on the server is relatively light-we have no heavy duty database apps for example, that would stress the network.Would something like an AMD x64 3400+, 3 Gb RAM and a SATA RAID 5 setup be able to handle the load? There's always the fallback position-if the SATA RAID doesn't work out, they'd end up in my workstation and we'd have to bite the bullet & go SCSI.Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnielsen151 Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 I am currently using dual 250GB SATA drives on a RAID 1 (mirror) in a Small Business Server 2003 server.Works flawless......No performance issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Must4ng Posted May 27, 2005 Author Share Posted May 27, 2005 Sounds promising. How many workstations do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverHaze420 Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 I think you should be fine. It should be able to handle 15 users. If you experience performance issues use 2 separate drivers and share the bandwidth that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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