System for Sage accounts - SSDs ?

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I'm using Sage accounts, used by 2 users currently and also has another system logged on at all times to accept orders / update stock to a website.

Now I know Sage isn't the fastest bit of kit around and seems to run very slow over the network - Sage is stored on a celeron machine with a 40gb IDE HDD - so I'm guessing the slow speed is due to it being an old PC, and a slow HDD.

I'm thinking of putting something together , which will improve Sage performance by quite a bit, not slow like its running now - would something like a C2D with 2 x 30gb SSDs in RAID 0 show a significant increase in Sage performance?

I've tried doing some googling,but unforunately it seems enthusiasts don't really build PCs/install SSDs so they can benchmark Sage performance :p

Thanks in advance :)
 
server i built for an accountancey uses 2gb ram and q6600 cpu with 150gb velociraptor and 150gn normal raptor for the data drive. and its quite fast with sage payroll and taxation software.

with the amount of writes done in sage id not bother with a ssd, they gonna nacker out too fast.
 
Agreed, the SSD will make little to no difference, i'd concentrate on the CPU & RAM.

Any Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM should pretty much see you fine.
 
Ok thanks - in that case I'll pick up a fast HDD such as velociraptor and use my existing PC

C2D E6300 , 965P-DS3P, 2GB RAM

Easy solution :) Hope this performs a little better!
 
I wouldnt waste the money on a velociraptor.

Pick up an HP ML115 quad core for £150, another 1gb RAM and RAID1 2 x 160gb HDDs
 
iaind said:
I wouldnt waste the money on a velociraptor.

Pick up an HP ML115 quad core for £150, another 1gb RAM and RAID1 2 x 160gb HDDs
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The machine storing the Sage install is actually also one of the Sage users and will have office etc. on - would a ML115 do OK for that too? Seems good for the price.
 
OoOverclockaoO said:
The machine storing the Sage install is actually also one of the Sage users and will have office etc. on - would a ML115 do OK for that too? Seems good for the price.
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Yeh no reason why not, apparently they're pretty quiet so that wouldnt be an issue
 
There's a big thread about these in the servers forum, there's people on there running XP on it, no reason it wouldnt work.

Alternatively, 2003 is useable as a desktop OS, you can even put the XP Luna theme on it
 
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