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Server upgrades, am I on the right track?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I know I can always get good advice here. I recently started working full time at a doctor's office in a combination of IT / billing. We're moving to Electronic Medical Records next month and I'm tasked with upgrading and re-purposing one of our servers. We're currently using a single hard drive in a dell power edge with 4gb of ram and windows server 2k3 as a terminal server for 11 of the ~35 systems on our network. We're replacing the thin clients with towers and adding a raid 5 configuration to the server and using it as an image server for the scanned charts. Here's a rough outline of my plan of action: 1) purchase a raid card and 3x 1tb hard drives, possibly more ram 2) back up everything on the server to two external hard drives, and possibly a tape backup system (just in case) 3) use something like norton ghost (recommendations?) to clone the system to the new raid configuration anything to watch out for? anything I'm blatantly neglecting? [sigrotate] Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (Ozzy Osbourne)\| Some people say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one (John Lennon)\| Life is too short, so love the one you got (Bradley Nowell)\| I know the pieces fit, 'cause I watched them fall away (Maynard J. Keenan)\| Take your time, hurry up; the choice is yours just don't be late (Kurt Cobain)\| You could stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down (Tom Petty)\| Do you serve a purpose or purposely serve (Corey Taylor)\| You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, so stay with me and I'll have it made (Shannon Hoon) [/sigrotate] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4616]I X I[/url] on 11-18-2011 04:18)[/small] Loading...
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