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Best Configuration For Large MSSQL 2K5 Server?

I would avoid the Xeon 50xx processors. They're older, slower, and hotter, and more power hungry than almost any of the Xeon 51xx processors (50xx are Netburst based, 51xx are Core based). For just a tiny bit more money, you could get a Xeon 5130 which should be comparable or better than the fastest of the 50xx processors.

As for RAM, you could possibly save some cash by getting 4x1GB instead of 2x4GB. Depends on your plans for future expansion and how many memory slots you have. I know most databases love more memory, so give this some careful thought as to your expansion needs vs how much you want to spend.
 
so you havea 5 tb database and throwing it in a 5.5tb storage ?

you'll need some disk space for overhead, maintenance program, backups, log file storage, etc..

Should look at the 1tb hitachi x 10
 
Yeah I could throw some more HDD's at it (probably will).

Thanks MerlinRML for the advice on the Xeons. I'll look into that RAM idea too.

Do you guys think there'd be any problem w/ the multi-core procs vs single core for the type of SQL querying I'm going to be doing (low # of queries simultaneously)? Would a faster single core outperform slower multicores?
 
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