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Apologies for the delay was away on a long weekend The server has 5 Client PC's to host No separate server for backups Will look into your options listed and will definitely invest in the SSD and Veeam offline options

Evening Robert, 200Gb would cover the whole server (O/S & Data Drive) Sensitive data approx 10GB The O/S is installed on 2 x M2 SSD's via a BOSS Card The Data is hosted on a RAID 10 Array (4 x 4TB Ironwolf Pro HDD) Will look at Veeam

Currently running 2 x Removable HDD Caddies via a Dell Powervault RD1000 and using an old version of Acronis to undertake daily backups (and take one caddy home) However the backup system is far too slow when accessing data and with it being over 12 years old I'm looking for an alternative...

Mines landed this afternoon (a day early)

Me too

Managed to snag a 3080 pain free although I did an a/c prep last week just in case Hopefully doesn't get cancelled Shows how much the GPU prices are these days when £649 is looked upon as a bargain

Unfortunately pulled the trigger and don’t have enough posts to access the MM

So been offered the following refurb on a 5 year RTB warranty for approx £1000 + VAT, after looking at the HP offers think this is the way to go Dell PowerEdge T340 1 x Intel Xeon E-2226G 2 x 8Gb Memory Dell Perc H330 IDRAC 9 Dual PSU BOSS Card 2 x 256Gb Dell M.2 SSD's

The photos will be uploaded to the cloud as well and the server will be Raid 10, so may as well use the spare capacity that would be going to waste

Forgot to ask, is it worth adding a BOSS card to the server? And when using non-certified drives, would I only have an issue with the H330 or H730 Raid Card?

You tell your boss the same and let me know how you get on :eek:

Thanks for the detailed reply, budget on the server only is up to £1k Re storage, 80% of it will be old archived data and pictures of the bosses grandweans so mechanical drives will be fine Although will be using SSD's for the O/S I am swithering towards the HP as it has a NMVE slot for the...

I hope well north of that price, especially on the last gen card that came out in 2018

Well the good news is I've convinced the boss to go for a new HP or DELL and purchase new HDD's

Thanks for the insight, will speak to the boss and see if I can persuade them to up the budget and buy a new Dell T340 or HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen10 Server with 3 years warranty

Not at all it's fair comment re the HDD's (will now be looking at new SSD's & HDD's) although new drives can and do fail However the reality is Servers are built to last and the budget doesn't allow for a brand new server, hence having to go down the 2nd hand route Re Raid 0, it wasn't a typo...

Can’t afford to be offline and our bb is limited to ADSL but an interesting idea We also need shared access to a couple of programs that have active databases

Thanks for the helpful remarks, re the NAS option always found them to be low powered and over priced (I'm used to Windows Server so don't really want to start learning a new O/S or faffing about with VM) The HPE FW update lock is the reason im more keen on a DELL solution Will look into the...

Looking to replace a 2008 Dell Poweredge PE1900 Server at work due to it showing it’s age. Was advised by our IT subby to forget Dell and go down the HP route However as we’ll be going down the 2nd hand route, I’m concerned about the failure rate of HP’s ILO boards What are the pros and cons...

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