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How much guts should a server with 4 clients have?
Dual CPU???
1GB RAM??
RAID???
It's for a medical centre.

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by maelgwyn

For 4 clients:

a high end workstation is all that may be needed, but keep in consideration:

1. if the server is to hold mission critical data / sensitive data, make sure you have a backup plan and raid. This will help ensure you have valid data, and the server will not go bottom up when you need it most. RAID 5 is preferable (striping with parity - requires 3 hdds)...

2. RAM might only need to be 512MB DDR, but if you use a lot of server side software, more may be required

3. A single, high end CPU (ie. AMD Athlon XP 1.9+) should suffice. 2 or more cpus are not really necessary...

4. Remember to have 100MBs network, as lag can be important.

Knowing a similar system, the server will hold one huge database and probably the correspondance etc. The RAID will help the database with speed, and the 100MB network will ensure that there is no lag to get patient files. Please add more if this isnt enough

Hope it answers your question
Maelgwyn

by maelgwyn

BACKUPS ARE ESSENCIAL

Windows 2000 Advanced Server will have enough room there, so please add only the extra if the software used needs it (ie. the client details, etc.)

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