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HW upgrade recommendations for a PE 1850 rack mount
Hi all,
I need more disk space on a rack mount PE1850. Currently the server has raid1 mirrored hot swappable 73GB 10k rpm HDs, 2gb ram in 4 slots, and a Xeon 3.2GHz chip.
Question: Is my only option to upgrade the HDs to the Dell 146GB 15K RPM 80-pin SCSI U320 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive, Cust. Kit that show up when I put in my service tag for HD upgrades?
This PE1850 has been great as an SBS 2003 server for 5 users but now I'd like to make it a virtual server host for two virtual server machines. Unless wiser heads tell me it's not worth it.. As a virtual host, it would host the SBS machine and also a Server 2003 running a SQL Server 2005 app. I know I can move the contents of the original SBS server using my backup imaging software.
I would also pump up the RAM.
TIA,
Ray