File server for small business

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mrparadize

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So i have been given the task of creating a brand new server for a small business. They are in the hospitality business and manage a night club, resturant, and music venue. They are primarily looking for a file server, but the owner would like it to store the clubs music. There are 10 computers total connected to the network and there is a max of 8 employees on the computers at any given time. Their previous server was ancient it is a 3.0gz pentium 4 with 2 gigs of memory and 200gb running on windows 2000. The server has recently filled up and the owner wants to upgrade his tech infrastructure

I was given a budget of $450 to build a new server. Here is what i came up with. please let me know how this will stack up.

Windows home server 2011
AMD X4 840 3.2 ghz
8 GB DDR 3 pc 16000 Gskill ram
500 GB sata 6.0 7200 rpm HDD ( 80 gb of this will be partitioned to the OS)
2TB hitachi SATA 6.0 5200 rpm HDD
80 GB 7200 Rpm IDE HDD (left over hard drive to include for the hell of it)
No graphics card/sound card
520watt PSU

Will this do the trick for a small business server? Will it be significantly faster than their previous set up?
 
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mrparadize said:
So i have been given the task of creating a brand new server for a small business. They are in the hospitality business and manage a night club, resturant, and music venue. They are primarily looking for a file server, but the owner would like it to store the clubs music. There are 10 computers total connected to the network and there is a max of 8 employees on the computers at any given time. Their previous server was ancient it is a 3.0gz pentium 4 with 2 gigs of memory and 200gb running on windows 2000. The server has recently filled up and the owner wants to upgrade his tech infrastructure

I was given a budget of $450 to build a new server. Here is what i came up with. please let me know how this will stack up.

Windows home server 2011
AMD X4 840 3.2 ghz
8 GB DDR 3 pc 16000 Gskill ram
500 GB sata 6.0 7200 rpm HDD ( 80 gb of this will be partitioned to the OS)
2TB hitachi SATA 6.0 5200 rpm HDD
80 GB 7200 Rpm IDE HDD (left over hard drive to include for the hell of it)
No graphics card/sound card
520watt PSU

Will this do the trick for a small business server? Will it be significantly faster than their previous set up?
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It will do the trick, but I see no fault tolerance, and 5200 RPM would be dreadfully slow. However, it all depends on how the file server is used and accessed.

Also, Is there a reason you are going with WHS 2011?
 
well for a server a 5400rpm file drive with the 7200rpm main drive will do the trick, otherwise i'd look at the phenom x4 955 be, is a little faster than a 840 and is a true phenom were the 840 is an athlon actually, then prob throw in a slight overclock
 
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