At 08:35 AM 03/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>Dr. William E. Knight (419) 372-7816 (voice)
>Dir., Planning and Inst. Research (419) 372-7878 (fax)
>Ast. Prof., Higher Education [log in to unmask]
>Bowling Green State University www.bgsu.edu/offices/ir
>301 McFall Center
>Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0087
>
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>order."
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Bill,
I'm not sure what you have in mind, but you should consider that you may
need two systems to guard against failure and for capacity balancing.
Informations systems just purchased 3 2400's. Chip Aiken of our info
services staff said that he would be glad to talk to you. He said he'll be
in and out this week and may be hard to get a hold of. But he is good
about returning calls. His number is 330-672-7971 (Ext 52).
Will
William Bulger
126 Lowry Hall
Kent State University
Phone 330-672-7901
Fax 330-672-3828
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