Drew,

If you are planning on using SBS, then you have to install SQL, Exchange &
Activie Directory all on the same machine.

If you have the licensing, you may get some benefits from splitting Exchange
& SQL. Each are memory hogs in their own right, but if you end up with low
usage one one of these, you could end up with idle resources on the other.

Though I hate to admit it, I would almost vote for the single machine with
everything in your case. You would get the benefit of sharing all the
resources across the apps and which may get you better performance. I'd
have a different opinion if the single machines had better specs, but you
are basically describing the same total resource in terms of CPU & memory
(plus, I'm a fan of RAID 5 over RAID 1).

HTH,
Matt

"Drew" <drewmabry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I am getting ready to instal mscrm for testing/dev. For the same cost i
could get either a Dual 2.6 Xeon, 2 gigs ram and IDE raid 5, OR I could get
2 separate systems, each with 2.6 P4, 1 gig ram and a raid 1.

I was thinking of using the Dual Xeon with SBS, or in the alternate
configuration, setting up SQL on one machine, and Exchange and mscrom on the
other.

Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions before I get the hardware and start the
install?

Thanks

Drew