Specifications

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Agilent ChemStore C/S—System Requirements
1. Agilent ChemStore C/S
standalone
Hardware requirements
The following list shows the mini-
mum hardware requirements for
this application:
• 400-MHz Pentium II (Pentium
IV recommend)
• 4 GByte of free hard disk space
• 96 MB RAM for single Chem-
Station instrument. 128 MB is
recommended for best perfor-
mance, for Windows 2000 the
minimum requirement is
128 MB.
• 128 MB RAM for two Chem-
Station instruments (256 MB or
more is recommended for best
performance)
• Display: 1024 × 768, small fonts,
65-thousand colors
Software requirements
The following list shows the mini-
mum software requirements for
this application:
• Windows NT Workstation 4.0
with Service Pack 6a, or
Windows 2000 Professional
with Service Pack 2
• Agilent ChemStation revision
A.09.03 or later
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
4.01 or later
• Microsoft data access compo-
nents (MDAC) 2.5 will be
installed on your system. If you
already use a later version of
MDAC, or for compatibility
reasons require a previous ver
sion, please contact your
Agilent support representative
for compatibility information.
• A local or network printer must
be installed and configured.
Hardware considerations
Disk space requirements depend
on several factors, such as:
• number of runs and
compounds,
• technique (3D data requires
more disk space than 2D data)
• Agilent ChemStation report
style
• the “Store in Addition” settings
of the study to which the run is
assigned, (see table 4 on page
7), and
• use of custom fields
• database backup requirements
Typical runs use approximately
10 KB for a short report with four
peaks, and use up to 300 KB per
run for an extended performance
report with 20 peaks. Table 1
helps calculate the amount of
hard disk space requirements.
Additional information on this
topic may be found in the Agilent
ChemStore C/S Installation man-
ual and the Concepts Guide.
Note:
The standalone database size is
limited to 800 MB due to some
strict size limitations in the under-
lying file format. To ensure opti-
mum performance for later data
review Agilent strongly recom-
mends not to exceed this data-
base size limit. If a larger single
database is required, Agilent
recommends that the client/server
version of the product be pur-
chased. The client/server database
uses Oracle, which allows for a
much larger database. Additional
standalone databases can be cre-
ated via the Agilent ChemStore
C/S utility.
Table 1
Client storage requirements for result only data storage
Number of peaks Agilent ChemStation report style Run length Approximate size
(minutes) per run (KB)
4 short 6 10
4 short 30 40
4 extended performance 6 80
20 short 6 190
20 extended performance 6 300