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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 1:26 am
by Biohazard
that's right, I've finally lost it. If this works I'm gonna order it tonight
1gb registered ECC dimm. same specs as the 4 256mb ones. Can I get 4 of those little monsters to work on my 6BXD?
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 1:35 am
by CaterpillarAssassin
WTF are u gonna use 1gb of ram for!? mm...can someone say ramdrive with windows loaded? hehe
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 1:39 am
by Biohazard
I already have 1gb of ram. I was looking to go to 4gb total
I figure if I can get FTP working, this server is gonna be working it's ass off... needs all the fire power I can get it.
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 2:17 am
by skeeter
1 GB dim? I don't know, 1 GB dims I don't think have been tested that well, and i do know for a fact that when 256 MB dims first came out there were timing issues, resulting in stability problems.. Not saying that the 1 GB dims wouldn't be stable, I would try educating my self first...
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 3:16 am
by Splitfire
you're crazy. there, happy?
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 3:29 am
by skeeter
yeah he is, i thought i was crazy myself for running 512 megs.... i feel weak now...
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 6:36 am
by Darkheart
Are you sure your motherboard supports 1GB DIMMS, also isn't RAMDRIVE severly limted in it's max size (32Mb Max).
Darkheart
[Edited by Darkheart on 01-15-2001 at 06:44 AM]
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 7:46 am
by EvilHorace
Excuse my ignorance on this subject BUT can anyone please explain WHY one would really want or need that much ram? Specifically........what can you do with that much ram that I can't with my measelly 256mb? Examples would be nice.
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 8:33 am
by LikeLinus
Boy what a waste of money. Are you running on a T-3/oc-3 or something? You do realize you will max out your bandwidth WAY before you ever max out even 512mb of ram? You'd be better off using that money for Harddrive space, a faster connection. Most company servers which have 100's of employees hitting it, use only 512mb of ram...and that's on a T1 line! You will get better speed out of using SCSI Harddrives than 4gigs of ram.
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:07 am
by Danielm7
Wow 1 gig dimms, I'm pretty much wondering now too, what is this server doing that it needs 4 gigs of ram?
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:17 am
by Kakarot
The max most mobo's can use is usually around 2 gigs. I don't think even NT or 2000 would be able to really use THAT much ram. Not really needed... if anything spend the money on a SCSI RAID controller and upgrade the cache on it to 128mb and strip like 4 36gb 15k cheetahs.
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:45 am
by Biohazard
I have over 120gb total storage already. So that's not a problem (7200 rpm min speed). As far as the OS not taking it, I have winNT4 enterprise. It will take up to 128 cpus and 256gb of ram (don't ask why I loaded that thing).
But the purpose of this thing is to run FTP which I have this bad feeling is going to be busy as hell. Trading MP3's when you have over 85,000 of em should draw some traffic. I also plan on getting a dedicated T1 for this project
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:53 am
by Danielm7
Dedicated t1 to your house, or is this like getting put in a workplace or something?
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 11:56 am
by bitSLAP
Even a T1 is usually only ~ 1.5 mbps. You could max that out before even having 256 megs ram and 5400 rps hdds. I agree that you should focus on your bandwidth limitations.
In fact, for the price of four 1gb dimms, you could probably put a server on a big corporate or isp backbone.
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 12:30 pm
by Danielm7
If this is actually going into a house look at sdsl or something, I mean if you aren't making money off it either it will cost you a arm and a leg to set all that up.