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detchibe
401 posts
92 months
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Mine turned up today, I fitted an additional 4Gb of RAM, 2x 500Gb in RAID 1 and an optical drive. Started the SBS 2008 install before I left the office, it wasn't going along too badly. Will hopefully configure it at some point tomorrow so will report back!
SBS install tip, turn USB Boot priority to low in the BIOS otherwise Setup freaks.
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BliarOut
53,691 posts
109 months
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Ah migration mode  I'm keen to hear how it handles from the console and across the wire, we don't need a lot of oomph internally but the current box takes about 40 mins to reboot!
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buggalugs
6,923 posts
107 months
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I've noticed that about SBS2008, can take frikkin ages to shut down & come back up again even on decent ish hardware.
I'd go 8GB minimum though. It just about runs on 4 but the console is very slow, and big exchange access will be slow. So 5 might be bareable ish but I'm calling 8 the min myself.
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BliarOut
53,691 posts
109 months
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I've not looked into it in any great detail as I can't be doing with the test reboots  Probably back to the deliberate slow shutdowns in the bad old days of Exchange.
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detchibe
401 posts
92 months
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BliarOut said: Ah migration mode I'm keen to hear how it handles from the console and across the wire, we don't need a lot of oomph internally but the current box takes about 40 mins to reboot! Yeah I'm using this one for internal use. How many users? Will post up tomorrow if I can get it configured in time. Our current box is a Shuttle with a 533MHz FSB P4 CPU and I think about 512Mb of RAM as one of cheapy sticks of memory died *embarrassed* - it has been pretty stable though on SBS 2003!
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BliarOut
53,691 posts
109 months
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detchibe said: BliarOut said: Ah migration mode I'm keen to hear how it handles from the console and across the wire, we don't need a lot of oomph internally but the current box takes about 40 mins to reboot! Yeah I'm using this one for internal use. How many users? Will post up tomorrow if I can get it configured in time. Our current box is a Shuttle with a 533MHz FSB P4 CPU and I think about 512Mb of RAM as one of cheapy sticks of memory died *embarrassed* - it has been pretty stable though on SBS 2003! 2 or 3. We're currently running SBS 2008 on a GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor with 4GB of RAM. It's fine when it's running but god help you if it needs rebooting during the day 
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james_tigerwoods
10,850 posts
67 months
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What disks does it use? Is it simple enough to upgrade? Will it run a Windows Server OS?
I don't need one of these - I don't need one of these - I don't need one of these....
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BliarOut
53,691 posts
109 months
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Yes, yes, yes. You do, you do, you do.
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james_tigerwoods
10,850 posts
67 months
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No. No. No.
PS, can you build/configure this remotely or would you need a keyboard/mouse/monitor? (I only have laptops in the house).
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paddyhasneeds
8,815 posts
80 months
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Ish. You'd be able to remote into it once the OS is on (dependent on the OS of course), but not remote to it to install the OS.
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onlynik
2,597 posts
63 months
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Bought one last night. Hopefully it will arrive before Christmas so I can get playing with it and get rid of the old junk server I have at teh moment.
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paddyhasneeds
8,815 posts
80 months
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Hmm mine (well, works) arrived today. Seems nicely enough put together, cheap as chips too.
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BliarOut
53,691 posts
109 months
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SBS 2K8, I need to know how it handles 2K8
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detchibe
401 posts
92 months
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I haven't got any further with mine, had to do some real work today! 
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BliarOut
53,691 posts
109 months
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I'd be keen to hear how a vanilla fully patched install runs against some benchmark or other so I can compare my old workhorse...
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detchibe
401 posts
92 months
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I'd like to have a look at it tomorrow, but doubt I'll get the time as I've got to put SBS 2008 on another server for an install next week!
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spants
903 posts
97 months
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if you want to run it as a nas - i totally recommend UNRAID Migrated from whs and currently running 5TB. Free and paid for versions available. Checkout the forums on http://lime-technology.com/
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RoadRailer
531 posts
98 months
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BliarOut said: SBS 2K8, I need to know how it handles 2K8 I'd love to know too. any room for a 64gb SSD for the OS and a pair of ordinary spinning platters for data? I'm very tempted, would make a decent ZFS (nexentastor) NAS too.
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james_tigerwoods
10,850 posts
67 months
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How many internal disks can it run? SATA, I assume?
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paddyhasneeds
8,815 posts
80 months
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