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 What’s the optimum amount of memory on a Quad core xenon 3.4 ghz machine?
64-bit Servers, Memory management, quad-core processor, SQL Server
Should we load up a 64-bit OS for this machine? It will be SQL Server only. We want to have the best user experience so any help would be greatly appreciated.

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ASKED: July 21, 2010  7:37 PM
UPDATED: July 21, 2010  8:34 PM
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This varies greatly depending on concurrent connections, transactional activity, etc. As always the more memory you can supply the better. I would go with Windows 2008 x64 with 16GB of memory and appropriately partition your drives accordingly: In Server 2 Mirrored Drives - C: - Operating System Only 2 Mirrored Drives - D = Pagefile 2 Mirrored Drives - E = Applications SAN (iSCSI/Fibre) with redudant paths Expandible Drives - F = Database Files Only Expandable Drives G = Log Files Only Expandable Drives H = Dump SQL backup
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