We looked at offsite backup solution few years ago and we sattled on "Not worth the trouble and cost ". Pushing and storing data off site is cheap, but wait till you want to restore that 100GB data. Most vendors charge as little as 10 cents per MB to $5 per MB! What we end up doing is bribed manager with "Free DSL for your home. In return, we want you to host a file server with tape device attached to it." He agreed to rotate tape weekly and it's fine and dandy ever since.
Proven to work in our enviroment.-Woodshop.
We tried old P3(500MHZ).- died in 6 months. (2 inches of sawdust pretty much killed it.)
Tried Dell lower clocked P4.(1.2GHZ) - servived for 8 months inside of industrial cabinet.
Travla C137 with VIA EPIA 500MHZ with IDE CF reader/512MB CF with W98. Location - open enviroment. Cost? $350 total. We are using it like normal desktop- You know, fat client and all. Since there are no fan, sawdust system accumates inside is about an inch.(No. we haven't done any maintenance.)
We deployed about 40 of these (two years span)and there are less then 10 reported hardware related helpdesk request. So far, none died.
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We looked at offsite backup solution few years ago and we sattled on "Not worth the trouble and cost ". Pushing and storing data off site is cheap, but wait till you want to restore that 100GB data. Most vendors charge as little as 10 cents per MB to $5 per MB! What we end up doing is bribed manager with "Free DSL for your home. In return, we want you to host a file server with tape device attached to it." He agreed to rotate tape weekly and it's fine and dandy ever since.
Proven to work in our enviroment.-Woodshop. We tried old P3(500MHZ).- died in 6 months. (2 inches of sawdust pretty much killed it.) Tried Dell lower clocked P4.(1.2GHZ) - servived for 8 months inside of industrial cabinet. Travla C137 with VIA EPIA 500MHZ with IDE CF reader/512MB CF with W98. Location - open enviroment. Cost? $350 total. We are using it like normal desktop- You know, fat client and all. Since there are no fan, sawdust system accumates inside is about an inch.(No. we haven't done any maintenance.) We deployed about 40 of these (two years span)and there are less then 10 reported hardware related helpdesk request. So far, none died.