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To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (7445)	5/10/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (7445)	5/10/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: J_W	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

... but is there another way? Dan, Is DSL available in your area? I have had it now for about 6 weeks and it is great. 256K speed and full time on-line (no dialing in). Jim

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (7445)	5/13/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Dan, Most routers allow you to run 128K all the time with a simple check box on most router setups. The Bay RT328's are hanging periodically and support is hopeless. This router is nice but 0 debug features built in. 3com office connects are cheap for connectiing to the NET. Don't know if the function as a simple IP router only though. Cisco 76X is very good and feature rich. Connecting to your 2500 at work would require a 25XX with ISDN built in or external ISDN modem connected to one of the routers serial ports. Do you know anything about IOS?? Also you need to understand the subnet system at work and subnet your local network accordingly if you want to have seemless access to work. For example: NAT is great for the internet but If you have a router in your house and connect to work you lose one of the key features which is you can't get from work back to your Home. I have FTP servers setup at home, network shares, and PC Anywhere running so that I can run all my PC's at home from work and access my data fairly seemelessly and securely. if you wan't more details email me. Sean