I am about to replace my old server. It's a Pentium 166 w/64MB mem and 20GB of storage on SCSI drives. My question is as follows:
1] Currently Pentium 3-600 MHZ servers are selling for about $300. 9GB wide ultra scsi drives are $30. A very capable server w/ 27 GB of storage and 1 GB of mem could be constructed for about $600. Brands available are Compaq, HP, and IBM. All are designed w/fault tollerance and redundancy features built in. Some offer multiple precessor capability(up to 4).
2) I could build an Athlon 64 machine w/twin 160Gig Sata drives and 1 gig mem for slightly more money, but the machine would lack the "heavy duty, fault tollerant design features of the Proleineas etc.
Which would be the best strategy in a 4 user small office environment?
Thanks for your opinions.
1] Currently Pentium 3-600 MHZ servers are selling for about $300. 9GB wide ultra scsi drives are $30. A very capable server w/ 27 GB of storage and 1 GB of mem could be constructed for about $600. Brands available are Compaq, HP, and IBM. All are designed w/fault tollerance and redundancy features built in. Some offer multiple precessor capability(up to 4).
2) I could build an Athlon 64 machine w/twin 160Gig Sata drives and 1 gig mem for slightly more money, but the machine would lack the "heavy duty, fault tollerant design features of the Proleineas etc.
Which would be the best strategy in a 4 user small office environment?
Thanks for your opinions.