[nzlug] File Server Cost Analysis

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

Unless I'm misunderstanding the question:


             [cost of Windows server]

	               =

[cost of Linux server] + [cost of Windows license]


:)
Jasper

Michael Adams wrote:
> Has anyone done a cost analysis for a Linux Server versus a Windows one
> i can piggyback on? It's for a proposal for a Charitable Organisations
> client files. My employer, a small unit of a larger NPO, so i would make
> nothing on the proposal.
> 
> I had been thinking something like RAID 5 with 3 * 150GB giving 300GB
> plus a backup method (cron tar to a USB HDD?).
>