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Server on a Laptop

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atattoogod

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Currently i have a server that i take on the road with me, but thats getting old and my company is buying me a laptop. i did a little research and found that dell makes a laptop with 2 hard drives and i can put a pcimcia card for the second network port. I use the server for mostly RISing and coping 20 g databases to about 40 computers at a time. Does anybody have a recomandation on what company makes the best laptop for server 2003


any suggestions would be helpful



Kaine
 
A Dell 1721 or a XPS 2010 maybe?

HP's DV9500's I think still let you customize them with 2 drives.

Alienware has a few models that do it.

Toshiba's A205's are 15.4" models that let you customize them with 2 drives, they have a few 17" models with dual drives too.

The problem isn't finding a laptop with 2 drives, it's finding one with dual Ethernet ports. I'd recommend a new Toshiba with an ExpressCard slot, and a gigabit Ethernet ExpressCard54.

Dell is pushing back orders like you wouldn't believe. Mine is going on 5 weeks.
 
you need a fast harddrive for rising, that should be your primary focus, think you can get laptop with two hd bays, and possibly you can raid them to get better read speeds

and memory go for that, and I would recomend fiddling with vmware, so you can have your normal stuff on the laptop host os and then you can have the server on a virtual machine
 
The 1721 has a RAID 0 option, it's a shame the 1720 doesn't. Oh well.

Some Alienware 17" models do RAID 0 too.

EDIT: Come to think of it, a 17" Clevo model (powernotebooks.com) has an option for 3 drives and RAID 5.
 
thanks for all the suggestions


it amazes me that dell or one of the other big companies dont make a laptop specifically for server considering how mobile every one is. Instead of having the stupid phone jack that 1% of the world uses, make it a rj-45 and bam. right now im looking at the XPS 2010 but i want a true laptop.

still looking around, but need to find something before the boss changes his mind

 
Note: look for only laptops that have intel integrated video.. You can put two hard drives in ThinkPads as well with the bay adapter.
 
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