RE: Re: OT: 5 new PC's required

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I already have 4 shuttles, so that is certainly a possibility. I noticed
that some of the newer shuttles ar listed as 'silent' which is
interesting as the noise is the biggest problem I have with my existing
units. But from a power and size point of view shuttles are certainly an
excellent possibility.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Balharrie [mailto:davidj@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 May 2004 13:31
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: OT: 5 new PC's required
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> Graham,
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> What about using a case from shuttle? I have a SK41G
> (http://www.shuttle.com/hq/product/barebone/specification.asp?
> B_id=10) which runs Windows 2003 server with IIS & SQL 2000
> server for testing.  You can have two hard disks in it if you
> don't put a CD drive in the system. I just plug in a CD drive
> as needed or share a drive across the network.  You need to
> keep an eye on heat if your put two fast drives into the
> system. There is one fan at the back which cools the cpu and
> the rest of the system. This keeps the systems noise down.
> With 5 boxes running all at once it's still going to be noisy.
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> Dave
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>   _____
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> From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 May 2004 12:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: OT: 5 new PC's required
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> > > I need to get a little server farm set up ...
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> > Alternatively, one Very Fast (multiprocessor?) PC and Microsoft
> > Virtual PC running five instances of W2003?
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> I did think of virtual pc, but I know it is a memory hog and
> the server apps are already going to chomp memory. I'm pretty
> sure I can get away with 1Gb of memory in each server for
> now, but trying to set up 5 on one box with that sort of
> requirement is going to mean an enormous amount of RAM on the
> machine. Also, I would assume that 5 average processors on
> basic boards would probably be significantly cheaper than a
> multi-processor board and cpus.
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> For anyone who is interested, it is a SAP Enterprise Portal
> I'm setting up for development work, this software is huge
> and there is no point in me trying to replicate a real
> commercial environment with puny kit. I have been using
> servers the past couple of weeks with 512Mb RAM and they
> crawled :-( The setup needs to replicate corporate
> environments, so again several virtual servers wouldn't be
> exactly right.
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> So, back to the original question, I think I understand the
> pricing now and it looks like 1Gb RAM in each machine is
> going to be the limit for the cash. But I have yet to find a
> small case and motherboard that can run quietly and can take
> up to 2Gb RAM and 2GHz processor. I'm not to concerned about
> Intel or AMD and there will be no overclocking. Any suggestions?
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