SCSI HARD DISK RADI 5 NECESARY??

Why is it so necesary having SCSI HArd Disk. i have a Server with the next:

P4 2.8Ghz,
1GB RAM
80GB HArd Disk SATA
40GB ATA

will i be able to install CRM 3.0 under This Hardware Architecture

the software is not problem i have already install Windows 2003 Server

Feridun
Mon Apr 10 16:58:54 CDT 2006

You will be able to install CRM 3.0.

SCSI is recommended for performance. It all depends on how many users
and how much CRM activity you expect to have.

With the specification of server that you mention I wouldn't expect it
to support much more than 5 or so simultaneous users. But of course,
it totally depends on how much the system is used.


Feridun


On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:46:01 -0700, Dorian MR <Dorian
MR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Why is it so necesary having SCSI HArd Disk. i have a Server with the next:
>
>P4 2.8Ghz,
>1GB RAM
>80GB HArd Disk SATA
>40GB ATA
>
>will i be able to install CRM 3.0 under This Hardware Architecture
>
>the software is not problem i have already install Windows 2003 Server

Sean
Mon Apr 10 21:47:09 CDT 2006

Actually where the disk array is needed is on the db server. The CRM Web
Server is pretty light and does not need a RAID 5 array for performance.

Sean Fullerton

"Dorian MR" <Dorian MR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D9785D2-CE30-4EFB-AA5A-A9A980DDECFD@microsoft.com...
> Why is it so necesary having SCSI HArd Disk. i have a Server with the
> next:
>
> P4 2.8Ghz,
> 1GB RAM
> 80GB HArd Disk SATA
> 40GB ATA
>
> will i be able to install CRM 3.0 under This Hardware Architecture
>
> the software is not problem i have already install Windows 2003 Server

Joe
Tue Apr 11 15:50:01 CDT 2006

SCSI is not required.

This server spec should be fine for 15-20 users if the only thing you are
runing on this server is CRM.

Your first bottleneck would probably be processor - hyperthreaded, dual
core, or dual processors can alleviate that.
After that your bottleneck would be memory.

As long as you have enough RAM, the web sever should not be accessing the
disk much after the first load of each page.





"Dorian MR" <Dorian MR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D9785D2-CE30-4EFB-AA5A-A9A980DDECFD@microsoft.com...
> Why is it so necesary having SCSI HArd Disk. i have a Server with the
> next:
>
> P4 2.8Ghz,
> 1GB RAM
> 80GB HArd Disk SATA
> 40GB ATA
>
> will i be able to install CRM 3.0 under This Hardware Architecture
>
> the software is not problem i have already install Windows 2003 Server

Mr
Tue Apr 11 16:19:07 CDT 2006

I would invest in more RAM before faster disks