[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] So what's the real specs? - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Thu, Mar 31 2011 23:36 bradley

So what's the real specs?

SBS 2011 System Requirements:
http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/system-requirements.aspx

Small Business Server 2011 Standard

Component

Requirement

Processor:

Minimum Quad core 2 GHz 64-bit (x64) or faster for 1 socket

Memory:

Minimum: 8 GB
Recommended: 10 GB
Maximum: 32 GB

Available Disk Space:

Minimum: 120 GB

Fax Modem:

Fax Services require fax modem

 

See that?  I'd argue it's incorrect.  That processor is not a hard and fast minimum.  Nor is the memory a hard block.  I'd argue that RAM is the important of the two.  But that "minimum quad core" should be RECOMMENDED or MAYBE YOU MIGHT LIKE THIS SPEED or THIS WILL BE A REALLY ROCKIN' BOX but a hard block minimum of a processor?

Nope it's not a hard core minimum.

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# re: So what's the real specs?

Friday, April 01, 2011 11:17 AM by Luis Carvalho

Hi Susan,

it´s not. i have just installed it in this baby:

h10010.www1.hp.com/.../15351-15351-4237916-4237918-4237917-4248009.html

which is a 1.3 ghz dual core notebbok processor.

have to agree that you really need the 8 GBof RAM.

# re: So what's the real specs?

Friday, April 01, 2011 7:47 PM by Dean

"I'd argue it's incorrect"

That's what struck me at first when I read it. FOUR cores minimum ! But then I thought, can you even buy a server anymore that has less than four cores ? Laptops are moving to four cores minimum. By the end of the year if you want a home computer with only two cores you will have to look hard for it.

# re: So what's the real specs?

Friday, April 01, 2011 10:36 PM by Joe Raby

Makes sense about the CPU.  If you buy ANY current AMD Opteron now, even the cheap 4100's that are basically just Athlon II's in a different socket, and with a faster Hypertransport bus, it will be a quad-core at minimum.  Ditto for Xeon's AFAIK.

Big infrastructure server IMO = server-grade components from top to bottom.

Now, a storage server could be run from something simple, like an Atom, but it depends on what kind of additional stuff you might want to do on the same box.

# re: So what's the real specs?

Saturday, April 02, 2011 12:18 AM by Dean

"Dual core processors are the next big thing in higher end smart phones"

www.reghardware.com/.../review_smartphone_htc_incredible_s

So you won't even be able to buy a phone with less than two cores soon. :-)

I can't wait to buy my 8 core phone with a 32 core gpu !