Any help would be great.
My boss has asked me to look at a recent quote he was sent to replace our ageing server.
Smallish office with approx 15 users. General email/office work and phones etc. Nightly back ups are done of the data/info etc on tape still!!
Quote from existing IT company comes in at around 6k to replace it all!!!!
knowing a reasonable amount about hardware (but very little about networking etc) i suggested that the quote seems excessive!
However something I know very little about is SCSI hard drives - the quote for the server is:
Prices are without vat
HP DL380 G6 Rack Server (£1400)
2 x 1 gb of ram (£160)
4 x 146Gb SAS 10K SAS HDD Hard Drive (£175 each!)
3 x HP 146Gb 3G SAS 15K RPM Enterprise (£325 each!!)
10 x 1tb drives (£70 each)
plus various licenses for SBS etc.
Why do you need 7 scsi drives for a server? Also 10tb of backup spaces seems just silly as there is no WAY there is that much data to back up.
Also why do you need a specific Rack server when surely a small customer build server with 4gb ram and a good quad core cpu or something should/could do the trick for a lot less (or could it)
My boss has asked me to look at a recent quote he was sent to replace our ageing server.
Smallish office with approx 15 users. General email/office work and phones etc. Nightly back ups are done of the data/info etc on tape still!!
Quote from existing IT company comes in at around 6k to replace it all!!!!
knowing a reasonable amount about hardware (but very little about networking etc) i suggested that the quote seems excessive!
However something I know very little about is SCSI hard drives - the quote for the server is:
Prices are without vat
HP DL380 G6 Rack Server (£1400)
2 x 1 gb of ram (£160)
4 x 146Gb SAS 10K SAS HDD Hard Drive (£175 each!)
3 x HP 146Gb 3G SAS 15K RPM Enterprise (£325 each!!)
10 x 1tb drives (£70 each)
plus various licenses for SBS etc.
Why do you need 7 scsi drives for a server? Also 10tb of backup spaces seems just silly as there is no WAY there is that much data to back up.
Also why do you need a specific Rack server when surely a small customer build server with 4gb ram and a good quad core cpu or something should/could do the trick for a lot less (or could it)