Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Annual Upgrades
Dunno what it is about late-December for me... either I'm truly coming out of my depression, or the thought of a new year makes me think about all of the technical plans that need to be made this year. So far, I've started the ball rolling on getting one of our externally hosted servers upgraded (we should manage to get about 2.5x to 3.0x performance boost for only 25% to 50% additional costs per month). We're also looking to buy new tape drives (leaning towards the AIT2 drives that are 50Gb native 130Gb compressed for $1500 plus $60/tape). And I also wrote up a price estimate to finally upgrade our Development group's server from a build-it-yourself system to a nice dual 2.0Ghz Xeon 1Gb DDR RAM with mirrored 72Gb Ultra320 drives, all in a compact 2U case with dual 500W power supplies. And the pricing on that system is currently only $5500 (drools), but will probably ask for $8000 so we can buy a few other extras.
All that, plus I rebuilt a server in the past two days. It's been a very busy week so far. The first quarter of the year is typically slow for us, so it's a good time of the year to do all of these upgrades even if the cash flow is a little tight. Plus, we just added a 5th person to the group (we've added 1 a year now for the past 3... although the 5th person is about 4 months early) so we're outgrowing existing equipment.
posted by Wuphon's at 8:30 PM
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