SSD in business clients

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Finally managed to convince a client to go with SSD in their client pcs. Just rolling out some hp i5 3.2ghz, 4gb ddr3 ram, 60gb kingston v300 and gigabit to server infrastructure, Windows 7 64bit.

Have to say its runs great, boots to desktop in no time and starting outlook and word with all the addons starts up instantly.

Don't know why anyone is foolish enough to go with under spec clients when they can go with this sort of spec for only £450 per pc.

Users are going to love IT now.

 

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Kingston Guarantee

Three-year Kingston warranty, free technical support

HP

There is the standard hp warranty that comes with any hp sff pc. It comes with 2 year 3 day replacement of faulty part, is what we have.


I like the kingston website as it has a business section which you can show to people who might want to purchase them in business.

http://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/vplus

 

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Here is the auto diskbenchmark i did today on the pc. The hp pc came default to ahci and supports sata3

faster than my home pc

 

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Which model HP are they please?
Currently looking at a refresh and sound like an interesting option, to the usual mechanical drive.

They are hp 6300 sff. They came with 500gb sata drives so yes we will also have 100 sata drives to flog.

With most applications installed including office 2010 we are left with 28gb. Problem is with outlook 2010 + cache mode + large mailboxes. That free space can quickly vanish. One user has a 25gb mailbox. So for these users we are looking at getting the 128gb or not enabling cache mode until they start dealing with their over sized mailboxes. Trying to get lawyers to reduce their mailboxes is not an easy task. They want 10 years worth of emails stored for every user that has ever had a mailbox within that period.

But with a 6gb mailbox and all apps installed still have 20gb free space. Redirected my documents to network drive and locked down desktop. There should be only DMS temp folder locally which is kept at less than 2gb. So in theory if mailboxes are under 10gb then 60gb should be sufficient.

 

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Your mistake is calling office workers ms office monkeys. Sure if its a receptionist but if its a user that is using business applications, opening documents and working within web applications it improves productivity and reducing performance complaints. Its worth the extra money for 10x more performance.