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Originally Posted by frankb3910
I realize that I can switch the drives around and rebuild this thing from scratch, I am just dreading that becuase of the time involved in moving all of the data around!
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Well, another approach might be to just aquire an 80 GB drive and install that as a replacement. You will lose the extra capacity, but it will save you time and effort.
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Originally Posted by frankb3910
Thanks a bunch to all of you. By the way we did upgrade the RAM from the 128MB it came with, to 256MB (based on suggestions from other threads). I have not noticed any specific improvement as of yet.
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Given the size of the drives, I seriously doubt you will see much if any real improvements over 128MB. Under a heavy load, lots of users ast once, you might, but it will be limited. All you are really getting here is a larger cache, and as we all know, there are diminishing returns on increasing cache beyond a certain point in any given system. In this case system being smaller, old, slower drives, with a single 100baseT ethernet connection. If you had a 4000 with 4 x 250 GB drives, or a 4500 with a larger OS, faster CPU, dual Gigabit ethernet, and 4 x 400 GB drives, it would make more difference.
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Originally Posted by frankb3910
I have another empty 4100 that I am about to upgrade ram and install 160-GB drives to see what will happen. I realize we will not see the full 160GB in this model snap.
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Should work fine. The limit is 137 GB, but if memory serves, you will get about 134 GB out of each drive, so somewhere around a 390 GB RAID 5 array.