viper92086
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So i'm having this issue with our company fileserver and i think its a hardware limitation, but want you ideas.
So we currently have a dell poweredge 840 (xeon, with raid 1, running sbs2003 w/ 4gb ram). As of right now it duties as a file server for our shared company folder, print server, and it also runs our AD (no email, its for the sole purpose of having security when accessing folders on the file server). I noticed that it tends to freeze and bog down often when people start moving files/folders around. We have several monitoring pcs that are as well dumping files and folders onto this network share (about 1mb files going back and forth). There are about 10 of these monitoring pcs with constant access moving small files, then about 15 employee pcs that connect and move various files and various times.
Now i'm not sure what kind of upgrades i can really do without taking the whole server down and doing a reformat on a raid 5 config. any ideas or suggestions? is my hardware definatly the limiting factor?
So we currently have a dell poweredge 840 (xeon, with raid 1, running sbs2003 w/ 4gb ram). As of right now it duties as a file server for our shared company folder, print server, and it also runs our AD (no email, its for the sole purpose of having security when accessing folders on the file server). I noticed that it tends to freeze and bog down often when people start moving files/folders around. We have several monitoring pcs that are as well dumping files and folders onto this network share (about 1mb files going back and forth). There are about 10 of these monitoring pcs with constant access moving small files, then about 15 employee pcs that connect and move various files and various times.
Now i'm not sure what kind of upgrades i can really do without taking the whole server down and doing a reformat on a raid 5 config. any ideas or suggestions? is my hardware definatly the limiting factor?