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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (7446)	5/13/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Dan, check your ram usage. unless you using all your physical memory now on average then adding some is not going to help. NT running purely as a server generally doesn't use a lot of ram (40-70M depending on # of services running). It will create huge disk caches. I doubt swap performance is an issue. That said, adding a second drive purely for the swap is always a good idea for max performance. swap file will be written no matter how much memory you have. having it on a separate drive reduces head movement. First though I would upgrade to a 10,000 RPM drive for the OS or maybe a pair. one for the os and one for swap. IDE drives work fine in NT servers. There is one HUGE potential pitfall. Some motherboards (Intel 440FX based P6 200 for example)will always boot IDE first if enabled which means your existing scsi c: can no longer be the boot drive and will be relettered. obviously you could re-install everything to fix this but I doubt its worth the effort. If your MOBO can boot SCSI regardless of IDE being enabled go for it... Sean