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To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (7445)5/10/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
I am looking for opinions and advice concerning SCSI and NT performance. I have several NT servers booting off of a single 4 gig Wide SCSI internal drive. They are mainly file sharing and print servers. Each one has large external SCSI RAID cabinets (100 gig) where all the user data is stored. My question is whether or not I would notice an increase in performance by putting an additional 4 gig drive in and using it solely for the swap drive. I currently have only 128 meg ram in these boxes, would I be better off to increase the ram and leave the swap file on the boot drive?

One other question I have on my mind. These servers currently don't have any IDE drives in them. I am only using an IDE CDROM. Would there be any effect on performance if I were to install a couple of IDE 17 gig drives for some seldom used files that I would like to keep online? They would be installed as single drives only, without using software raid. I doubt that they would be used by many users concurrently. The allure here is the low cost of IDE drives, but I don't want to sacrifice any performance on any of my other SCSI channels due to having some IDE drives in the system. Maybe I am just paranoid on this.....

Thanks
Dan
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