MS Access Multiuser - Hardware Requirements

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Hardware Requirements

Weste

2005-04-06, 8:06 pm

Can anyone give me some recommended hardware specs for a server for the BE.
I am looking for things like processing speed, host adapters, disk drives,
etc. Thanks.

Weste

Rick Brandt

2005-04-06, 8:06 pm

Weste wrote:
> Can anyone give me some recommended hardware specs for a server for
> the BE. I am looking for things like processing speed, host adapters,
> disk drives, etc. Thanks.
>
> Weste

Assuming that you're talking about storing an MDB data file on the server
then the back end is only a file server (a remote hard drive if you will)
ALL processing happens locally on the PC running Access.

Having said that then the hardware requirements would be those that you
would want for any file server as far as processor and disk access times
goes. Unless you have a LOT of people hitting the server simultaneously the
speed of the network will vastly overshadow the specifications of the
server.

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Tony Toews

2005-04-06, 8:06 pm

"Weste" <Weste@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Can anyone give me some recommended hardware specs for a server for the BE.
>I am looking for things like processing speed, host adapters, disk drives,
>etc.

FWIW a client had 10 users happily working off a server which was a
Pentium 233 with 256 Mb of RAM on NT 4.0. I'd spend the money on
faster hard drives and better network adapter before I'd add CPU and
RAM. Possibly two network adapters as the network is the biggest
bottleneck.

Tony
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