Hard Drive Load Balancing

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Hello,

This might be a dumb question, but I have to ask. Is there anyway I can do a
Load Balance on my Hard Drives on the server. I have an SBS 2003 Enterprise
server (SP2 installed) running with 8 clients attached to it. I have
Quickbooks and a Dispatch program for my courier business on the server. The
clients are loading data into the programs and the server is running slow. I
have a 64bit chip and 4GB's of RAM installed, but I would like to know if
there is away I can make the server run alittle faster or not?


Thanks for your help in advance.
 
It is called RAID.
Stripped Sets in particular.
Regular Stripped Set is not fault tolerant but is fast.
Stripped Set with Pairity (RAID5) is fault tolerant but the fault tolerance
costs a little in speed.

Your Server has to have a RAID capable Drive Controller (most are SCSI).

If your hard drive is *not* running constantly,...then it is probably not
the reason the machine is slow. SBS is just simply slow by nature because
everything runs on the same box at the same time.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed are my own (as annoying as they are), and not those of
my employer or anyone else associated with me.
 
Phillip,

I built the server myself. It does not have a SCSI controller. But there are
connectors for SATA drives. Will this work better?


Thanks,

Phillip said:
It is called RAID.
Stripped Sets in particular.
Regular Stripped Set is not fault tolerant but is fast.
Stripped Set with Pairity (RAID5) is fault tolerant but the fault tolerance
costs a little in speed.

Your Server has to have a RAID capable Drive Controller (most are SCSI).

If your hard drive is *not* running constantly,...then it is probably not
the reason the machine is slow. SBS is just simply slow by nature because
everything runs on the same box at the same time.
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Joe via WinServerKB.com said:
Phillip,

I built the server myself. It does not have a SCSI controller. But there
are
connectors for SATA drives. Will this work better?
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SATA is not as "mature" as SCSI,...to me it is "home user" -vs- SCSI which I
would view as "Industrial". But it does seem that SATA is trying to "crowd
out" SCSI.

However there are SATA Controllers that do certain types of RAID. You'll
have to investigate it's capabilities with the motherboard documentation or
by seeing if the manufacture has any details on their website. I'm not a
"hardware guy".

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed are my own (as annoying as they are), and not those of
my employer or anyone else associated with me.
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