Any network admins here?

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Um yeah, people send attachments constantly. Internal, external, clients, etc......It's not my choice. A lot of it is internal corporate BS announcements, and a lot of it is inter-client communication. Not sure what else to say. A single Powerpoint could be 5-6 MB.

And you say "storage costs add up quick"........For a company like this with 10,000 employees, multiply that by 200 mb and the result is only 2,000 gigs. I could go to Staples and buy that much capacity for only a few hundred bucks. Granted, a business is not going to use a common consumer HD for a server, but I still don't understand why it's a big deal. How many servers would possibly be required?

Lets say you bought 2000gigs and shoved it all in a server.
Well...they don't sell a lot 2tb drives so you'll probably need to buy a couple of 1tb or a bunch of 500gb.

What happens if the drive fails?
Well guess you have to come up with a solution that provides a level of safety...so you set up a raid array.
Lets say you go simple (mirroring...which you wont you go full hog raid level 5 and up) so now your 2000gb became 4000gb.

Well that's great....now what if the sever fails?
Well I guess you got buy another server as a failover box...
So now you have another 4000gb plus the cost of a server
Total: 8000gb


Wait...what if something happens to the server room?
You better have a contigency site.
Another 2 servers.....

Your up to 16,000 gb

Don't forget to have some spares lying around for quick swaps
(your up to 32,000gb )

32 TBs




I could go on...