Re: PowerEdge SC600 memory upgrade

you first started talking about a lack of hard drive space, which is serious and would stop them from performing,
and you want to incrase the physical ram more than they will ever use???
are you sure you know what you're doing?

there is no need to add 4gb of ram in there, i am running the largest of servers with 1gb or 2gb max. dont waste that poor guys money.
sure you can buy outside of dell, but make sure the ram is certified for that machine. crucial and kingston and the better companies will do that.

what 3 hard drives does he have now?? are they scsi or ide or sata?
how much more room do you have in the box?

you can also repartition the array and take from the d drive and add to the c drive without buying any more hard drives.

adding 4 gb of ram will not solve your problem.



Bradley Walker wrote:

One of my clients has a Dell PowerEdge SC600 P4 server that they use as the backbone for their business. Today I visited on site to review a complaint regarding virtual memory errors, severe slowdowns and having to reboot the server after a major printjob. The first thing I saw when I logged onto the server was that they are running a 3 disc raid array that has a 4GB C:\ partition and a 116GB D:\ partition. The OS is Windows 2000 and after having that installed along with basic other software, they are down to 384MB remaining free on the C:\ partition. Basically the virtual memory has no place left to go.

We had a discussion on how to solve this and I suggested that what they are asking of their server in general, they need to upgrade beyond the 512MB single stick of memory that they have in there now to possibly max out the server with 4 x 1GB sticks. However on Dells website, PC2100/ECC/Registered is listed at $274 per 1GB stick. My question is, can I goto newegg or tigerdirect and get them PC2100/ECC/Registered memory at around $150 per stick instead? Does dell run different voltage for memory? Anything I need to be aware of?

Brad


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