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by rezuma

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Hi,

I have a client which is an architectural company, they have 3 plotters and several network printers. I also have an old server that act as a print server (windows 2000), i need to replace this server and i would like to know what would be the best choice, i need a server or device that allow me to share the printers (like a print server) but that is able to handle heavy duty printing. If what i need is to buy a server with windows 2000 what is the most important part, RAM? CPU? Hard DRIVE?

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by stress junkie

My preference is to use old equiment as long as
possible. This reduces cost and reduces the amount of
trash going to the landfill, or recycling center. So first I
would want more information about why this server
should be replaced. I hope it's not just because it's old.

Let's assume that there is a performance problem. You
can answer your own question by discovering the
bottleneck in the system. W2K has an excellent suite of
system administration tools. Run the performance
monitor when the printing service is considered to be
unacceptable. Check overall CPU, overall RAM used/
unused, overall disk i/o, and overall network activity.
The first two can be displayed as a percentage of
theoretical maximum. The other two require you to
know the theoretical maximum. This should point to
the system bottleneck.

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