Stay away from software RAID. Time and attendance software would have a necessarily high SLA, so some sort of physical RAID is important, beyond that, no idea. Frankly, your question is best answered by a consultation of your applications requirements and working with a Dell rep to get a machine to fill those requirements, and any additional requirements you might have, such as no software RAID.
In any decent size environment nowadays, I'm looking to virtualize as much as possible. Small servers get expensive quite fast, because you get into server creep. When I started with my current employer as an accountant nearly 5 years ago, we had one server. By the time I took over the IT position, we had three physical servers and were on the cusp of needing 6 more. I took the opportunity to take a step back, assess current needs, immediate future needs and estimate needs for the next 5 years (server lifetime). Decided to virtualize, sized a server appropriate to handle those needs and pulled the trigger. I probably saved at least $10,000 by buying one bigger server instead of popping up an additional server as needed. Another point, cheap servers just cost money. Buy appropriately sized servers, even larger servers and plan to virtualize your environment and you'll save $$$ down the road. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > I am looking at getting a small server running Windows Server 2003, so I > can have my time and attendance running on a supported O/S. Looking at > Dell’s Premier site, the least expensive option only offers a Software > RAID5, unless I’m mis-reading the options. Would you guys rather have a > Hardware RAID0 / RAID1 or a software RAID5? > > > > Any other options I should be looking at for a small server? We’re > primarily a Dell shop here, but I can look at others, including “white box” > servers, so long as I can get some sort of warranty / hardware support on > it. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Perception_2] > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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