Reply #11: I bought a Dell server, slapped 4-600GB Raptors in it, 1 main 1 for redundancy 2 for backup

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and never have to worry about data storage again. Every Friday night myself or the Controller pulls one of the backup drives out and takes it with us in case of a catastrophe. We have 182GB of scanned documents going back 9 years as of today and we have virtualy instant access with the Reynolds EDM software.. We've been hit with the 100yr flood already this past August, we aren't going to let it happen again. We haven't forgotten to bring the drives back in the next Monday yet, and I doubt we will.

Cost a total of $3500 with Server 2008. All of our documents are scanned to it, our system runs off of it in conjunction with the Reynolds front end, and we batch the day's business to a DVD burner every night.


I see too many holes in the cloud, and we want possession of our business documents.