Network Servers

6. Upgrading

Network servers are expected to see several years' service and are designed to be upgraded.

6.1 You may need to upgrade your hardware.

• Adding more RAM will improve the speed at which your network server responds (see 3.1).
• Adding a second network adaptor card will reduce congestion on your network.
• A faster or larger capacity hard disk drive will improve access speed, as will using several hard disk drives together.
• Adding a second processor will improve the performance of some specialist applications.

6.2 You may need to upgrade your software.

Upgrading or changing network software may involve reconfiguring all the computers connected to the server.

• You may occasionally need to update your network operating system.
• You may even want to change network operating systems.