From: "Robert Comer" 

> I am looking to replace my Notes server, currently a Xeon 866, RAID5
> (3 9GB drives).  Do you think I could get by with a dual 2.8GHz Xeon
> and RAID1 SATA drives?

How many users and/or Notes apps?  My first guess would be you should have
no trouble, especially of your RAID 1 SATA has any cache.  What kind of
usage percentage? do you have now?

>'m looking to get two servers and I'm trying
> get the cost down as I had only planned for one server in the budget.

2 singles may get you some failover I suppose.  I really don't have much
experience with notes on NT, but the requirements are pretty stout if I
remember correctly.

> You do Notes on the AS/400, don't you?


Yep, our piddly 40 users don't even touch the capacity I've got there.
Notes takes up maybe 2% of the CPU and 40% of the disk capacity and with
the disks running at about 12%-15% throughput. (overall throughput -- the
AS/400 does much more than just Notes.)

Just for comparison to your NT Server, our AS/400 has a 500Mhz main CPU, 1G
of RAM, and 80G across 16 fiber connected SCSI drives. (with cache and HW
based RAID)  Where this puppy gains its speed is from the IO processors and
the bus speed...

- Bob Comer


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