I wouldn't recommend software raid in a production environment.  


~Chris


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Subject: Re: is this system enuf strong?

--On April 5, 2006 8:58:17 AM -0400 Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


> That depends on what your LISTSERV traffic will be and what other 
> services, if any, that machine is intended to handle.
> Suffice it to say that unless you expect extremely heavy traffic on  
> that server, it should be more than sufficient. You should; however, 
> consider adding more memory to it though. 512MB might be  okay for 
> your needs, but memory is cheap, I suggest you have at least 1GB if 
> not 2GB of RAM in that system.

I also strongly suggest mirrored hard drives....though without a RAID
controller I've never used Windows inbuilt software RAID so not sure how
well it works.



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