Digitalcandy
IS-IT--Management
NAS #1
- Dell PowerVault 770N
- Dual Xeon 2.4GHz / 533MHz bus
- 6 SCSI HDs 136GBs 10K RPM
- Hardware RAID 5
- 2GB Memory
- 3 Year, Next day warranty
- Retail ~$12,500
NAS #2
- Dell PowerVault 725N
- Pentium 4 2.8GHz / 800MHz bus
- 4 IDE Hard drives 250GBs 7200RPM
- Hardware RAID 5
- 1GB memory
- 3 Year, Next day warranty
- Retail ~$5600
Things the NAS will be used for;
It will be the central location for all data files
- User home folders
- large CAD files
- Hopefully a print server, (Win2003 NAS OS comes with this option)
- Software, Updates, Patches, Drivers
At any given time I'd estimate 10-15 people will be accessing files on it so it could potentially see heavy use.
Is #1's price justified over #2? I'm mainly concerned with speed because it's hard to push reliability concerns on a boss that is not computer savy. Can I confidently tell my boss that #1 is twice as fast as #2? I know he will never know, and problaby me neither since I can't compare, but I don't like to falsify my requests.