On 1/22/2010 3:07 PM, Stuart Matthews wrote:
> Well, I certainly understand the merits of a "server" vs. desktop
> hardware for server usage. But, I am not really willing to spend the
> money for this, hence my "assuming no hardware failures."
>
> To spend the extra money for that hardware may be to not get the
> hardware cost approved at all. In which case I would be where I am now,
> and I'd rather be in the situation where I have hardware that is much
> more able to handle the load.

If you don't want to spend real money, I'd take your existing box up to 
4 gigs of RAM, and add a SATA card with a 2 TB internal drive or a pair 
in RAID1.  A faster motherboard will help a little but not a lot.  If 
you want to spend a little money, something that would let you run 4 
drives in a raid 10 or 1+0 configuration would help the most.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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