Help

I am sorry to but in on your thread but I cannot post a new question or
comment to save my life. Here is my 'delimma'. I have an interview tomorrow
with a web hosting company and I really need and want the position. I was
hoping the community might point me in some direction or any kind of pointers.

Please help!!!!
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Matt Lee


"mastertony@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

Hi all,

I work for a small company where about 7 to 10 PCs are exchanging
files between each other on a p2p layout.

As the IT guy there, I am constantly being asked to provide solutions
to the users where only on a server based network this would be
possible to deploy such as shared contacts, calendar, CRM, etc...
there are other obvious reasons why the move is required.

So I've made a decision to go with dell and chose a well spec'd
Poweredge 2900 for the job. It will come with SBS2k3 standard with 4
GB RAM, good processor, 2x 146GB Hard drives on RAID 1 etc...

Our current backup solution is simply portable hard drives (120gb
each), 3 on rotation... etc... this works OK for us. When I asked dell
for a server solution I was quoted the above server with a tape backup
unit which took the quote up quite a bit and for other reasons we
would prefer not use tapes to backup.

I was thinking in using DAS (direct access storage) or NAS (network
accessible storage) for backup purpose. I have been looking into DAS -
the enclosure costs about £150 then I would buy the SATA drives for it
and set either JBOD, RAID 0 or RAID 1
So my question to you guys is: What is best to use - DAS or NAS - on a
server based network that would be used for backup and possible direct
access by the users connected to the server?

I guess what I want to be able to do is to use this DAS or NAS
solution (whichever is suggested as best for my needs) for direct
access and/or my daily server backup.
My off-site backup would then be done by connecting my portable hard
drives onto this DAS or NAS and sync the data - this is done weekly!

Please let me know if my idea is not feasibly and if I should rethink
my storage/backup plans for the server based network move.

Many thanks in advance for your views!

Tony


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