Fileserver: How much space

[mikie7boy]

Hello people,

I'm costing a fileserver that will have 20 workstations connected to it. The workstations will be used for general office and accounting work. I've got most of it costed but i can't make my mind up about how much disk space to include. Would anyone like to offer their opinion on the subject?

Cheers Mike...

[Agent_Embryo]

There's no such thing as too much harddrive space. I'd say estimate the amount needed and then add some on top. Better to be on the safe side.

[mikie7boy]

I understand the point your making but i've got to cost this as cheaply as possible but still giving good performance so i'm really after a figure. This is just an assignment and we haven't been given any indication of the amount of space required other than what i mentioned before about the general office work

[PresterJohn]

you're leaving out some important details, ie. what type of drives (ide or scsi) and if you are going to run raid of some type (usually raid5 on the data stores).

>we haven't been given any indication of the amount of space required other than what i mentioned before about the general office work

if i were you, it is mandatory that you find out what their current storage sizes are (whether they're storing it on a local drive, or an old server,etc). w/o this info, you aren't going to be able to do a good job completing this assignment - underestimating their disk requirements can hurt you, just as badly as overestimating...