This years upgrades

[wesleyw]

Okay new servers

Dual Xeons 3Ghz
2Gb ram
2 x 73gb scsi
1U rack case
Win2K3

£1400 each?

P4 3Ghz
1GB Ram
4 x 250GB SATA
Windows Storage
£1800?

Autoloader 8 x 1 LTO2
£2400?

KVM LCD Monitor Rackmountable
£500?

Deep Freeze for 180 Clients
£900?

Ghost for 180 Clients
£1500?

Email and Remote access with webmail and unlimited users (Precedence)
£1500

What does everyone think of these prices?

Wes

[andy]

dual xeon at 1400 sounds good - are they a "proper make"?

And where is that LCD KVM from? I haven't seen them for less than 800?



Andy.

[wesleyw]

Dell its only the 1U LCD SCREEN not a keyboard+mouse and KVM switch but we already have those!

Wes

[Ric_]

@wesleyw: If you speak to Stu at 1st Technologies, he sometimes has those KVMs very cheap (depends what he has come across lately).

I'm sure I paid closer to £1500 for my Tandberg LTO2 autoloader too - would have to check the invoice though.

I would also recommend trying to use RIS over Ghost - should save you a pretty penny.

[john]

I say RIS over ghost, and that price for the rackmount screen is good, spoke to the Dell lady at Bett about the cost of there's and it was something like that, and not bad, she said they would come out and demo some stuff to us, and they also said it would complement any other Dell kit we own, and goes well with Dell racks. At that point I quietly said, we are a HP place, and use Mills racks, so it would stick out, but nice kit, anyway my solution was far cheaper.

Ball Mouse - in junk box
Light up Laptop keyboard - £18 eBay
15" TFT - in stores
Rack shelf - £36 - Mills
Roller Drawer for keyboard and mouse - £75 - Mills
Total Cost £129

Much cheaper, although you do need space to stand the 15" TFT up, which I have.