Hi All,
We're looking at replacing one of our file servers at our head office and we've been given a budget of around 8k to do so, inc. OS and care packs etc.
Recently we've been buying the HP DL 380 G7's, as they seem to be a good all round versatile server however is there a better solution for file servers specifically.
Ideally, what I'd looked at was getting 8x 600GB SAS disks in a RAID5, and an additional PSU for redundancy. Alongside 2008 R2 I feel that would be a solid server to last us around 5 yrs (unfortunately thats the turnaround at the company I'm with).
Does anyone else have any better solutions for this to maybe take advantage of dedupe or anything else? Maybe using a blade combination or is the budget just too small for this?
Just thought I'd see if anyone had any better ideas. We're looking for a minimum of 2.5TB usable in real terms as we want to plan for expansion really.
Thanks
We're looking at replacing one of our file servers at our head office and we've been given a budget of around 8k to do so, inc. OS and care packs etc.
Recently we've been buying the HP DL 380 G7's, as they seem to be a good all round versatile server however is there a better solution for file servers specifically.
Ideally, what I'd looked at was getting 8x 600GB SAS disks in a RAID5, and an additional PSU for redundancy. Alongside 2008 R2 I feel that would be a solid server to last us around 5 yrs (unfortunately thats the turnaround at the company I'm with).
Does anyone else have any better solutions for this to maybe take advantage of dedupe or anything else? Maybe using a blade combination or is the budget just too small for this?
Just thought I'd see if anyone had any better ideas. We're looking for a minimum of 2.5TB usable in real terms as we want to plan for expansion really.
Thanks