PowerEdge SC600 memory upgrade 1716

this reads like one of those reading comprehension tests... lots of information but all you are asking about is how to inexpensively upgrade the memory in a pe 600sc* from a single 512mb stick. the short answer is crucial.com or dell.com (yes sometimes they are cheaper). crucial has 512mb sticks for $100 and 1gb sticks for $200.

but you raise lots of other issues that should be addressed. the limited disk space on the primary drive can be dealt with in many ways before having to resort to resizing the parbreastion or some other drastic thing. like was suggested you could reduce the swap file size. often i find that ai386 file usually exists which can be moved or deleted. this folder contains the uninstalled version of the os (a copy of thei386 folder from the os cd). you can move this folder to another location so that you have quick access to a live copy or delete it altogether if you don't mind inserting up the os cd when you make certain changes to the os. you can also delete temporary files like windows temp files and internet explorer internet files. you can limit the size of temporary file cache so it doesn't get out of control. you can delete rollback files that were created while installing service packs. and buttuming that there is a backup program like backupexec used i would image that there are lots of logs files that can consume lots of space and they can be deleted. you can also move applications from the primary drive to another location. it may require uninstalling and reinstalling which makes things that are service specific better candidates for such a task (again, the backup program comes to mind). but that all said you so not need very much free space for windows 2000 server to work properly. but when it is low you do have to keep and eye on it.

you didn't say how large this organization is but you did mention printing was slowing down the server. unless you have some need to audit print jobs (like to bill back to a particular department or client) then you should not be using the server as a print server. each computer should print directly to each network printer. this not only eliminates the server wasting it time with the job but also means that the print job only travels once over

and if the thing is just a file server (not running exchange or any database application etc) then 512mb of ram is probably enough. but for $100 you might as well upgrade it with another 512mb for a total of 1gb as it certainly could not hurt (unless you buy some dubious cheap memory that results in the system freezing and-or corrupting the registry - so don't be cheap about it, buy from crucial or dell).

hope that gives you some things to think about.

* i buttume that you mean 600sc, i don't know of a sc600 unless you are perhaps in another country