New Server time Again guys

[mikeh501]

Bandwidth is cheap although admittedly didn't check the price per GB of Mozy Pro.

I'm obviously defunct in the SMB arena now.

Given they cant afford a £3k server then I'd assume they have bog standard ADSL. Based upon some back of a fag packet calculations I think it could take 10 months to back up their existing 7tb (+20% churn) and the 2tb the OP seems to think is generated per year. Bit like painting the Forth Bridge lol.

They obviously need to re-evaluate their budget given their large data volume increases per year. The problem in the future will be that their year on year "one-off" solutions will culminate into a massive problem of different solutions all of which are unfit for purpose and cannot be upgraded.

I still think a DAS solution is their only short to medium term option (>3 years). This would allow them to grow shelf by shelf without the upfront cost of a SAN. Beyond a few years they are going to require something more serious. They should also look at archiving all this stuff to something, as poor management might be a problem too.

 

[DustyMiller]

I know this is a little bump, but would be interesting as to the outcome of the advice given here, and the final soloution.

Maybe being a little bity too nosey.

 

[Shoei]

Screams for a SAN to me. Entry level HP or equivalent. I agree with the LTO though for backup.

Personally I'd chuck either an iSCSI or Fibre Channel (for speed it's always FC) SAN and lots of hard-drives in there - SATA or SCSI or FC SCSI (again depends on the budget) that way you have a scalable solution - you can start of with adding 1TB drives in there/.

M.

And considering the new HP 600GB FC SATA drives retail at £1800 each with out the carepaq, you aint going down the FC route with out going in to "BIG" money.

A 12 slot MSA2000FC with Dual Controllers will cost you £5400 alone. Your 1TB drives are £340 each. 4GB HBA for the server is £900. Then there is the carepaq on top plus any software for the MSA.

And this is entry level SAN stuff. Start looking at EVA's and then your into "proper money"

This sounds like something you cant afford to do on the cheap, not at the rate of expansion they are going.

 

[Yamahahahahaha]

when i say cheap we could probably go 2 maybe 3k, but thats max and it must include everything, storage, Backup, OS, everything

Let's keep this in mind. Also keep in mind that OP hasn't posted a reply in more than a week

I'm going to say "Not a chance" on that budget.