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Phoenix32 · 06-11-2006, 07:08 PM

Makes me wonder a little...

A lot of the older Pentium thru Pentium III boards and chipsets were sensitive to the array of chips on the DIMM (i.e. 64x8 vs 32x16) as well as if it was single or double sided. I have seen boards/chipsets that "seemed" to not go over 128 or 256 meg sticks and yet if a proper stick was found (array and # of sides) would do the next step larger. I just wonder if a Single Sided 512 would work? I wish I had one to test with, but I don't, sorry.

So, with a 4000 using software RAID 5, 4x250GB or 4x320GB drives, and say JVM installed, is a 256 DIMM enough to keep the system from getting bogged down? Slow as in restores/formats that take forever and a day or whatever.

06-11-2006, 07:08 PM	#17
Phoenix32 Thermophile Join Date: May 2006 Location: Yakima, WA Posts: 1,282	Re: JVM and S2Sv2 Makes me wonder a little... A lot of the older Pentium thru Pentium III boards and chipsets were sensitive to the array of chips on the DIMM (i.e. 64x8 vs 32x16) as well as if it was single or double sided. I have seen boards/chipsets that "seemed" to not go over 128 or 256 meg sticks and yet if a proper stick was found (array and # of sides) would do the next step larger. I just wonder if a Single Sided 512 would work? I wish I had one to test with, but I don't, sorry. So, with a 4000 using software RAID 5, 4x250GB or 4x320GB drives, and say JVM installed, is a 256 DIMM enough to keep the system from getting bogged down? Slow as in restores/formats that take forever and a day or whatever.