OAIRP Colleagues,

Does anybody know about file servers?

I've been researching buying one for our office
and am now at the point of evaluating two different
options that I've been shown by Dell.

Both servers are Dell PowerEdge 2400 with the same
configurations for power supply, monitor, keyboard,
mouse, terminator card, CD, floppy drive, tape backup,
RAID 5 configuration, NT 4.0, tech supporet, etc.

The chief differences between the 2, as I can best determine, are:

533 MHz processor   256 MB DRAM   54.6 GB hard drive     $5,607

600 MHz processor   512 MB DRAM   144 GB hard drive      $10,274


Two things that I'm really wondering about are:

1.  Is there a middle ground between these two configurations
    that I should think about?

2.  Are there any other important features which haven't been noted here?

Thank you very much.

Bill


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