Hi
We at the Sedgwick museum are just in the process of upgrading our Windows XP machine to a Windows 7 Dell PC which we use to host our collections database with a view to it housing up to a terabyte of images.
Max number of people allowed to access the database at any one time is 6 people.
It has 8gb of memory and 2 x 1TB harddrives I believe.
We looked at purchasing a rack server, but this was very costly for what we needed. We installed Windows 7, as this was all we needed, as our users are managed on the main department server, but you would probably need Windows Server software to enable you to manage the users.
We will back up our images to 2 x 1 terabyte hard drives which we will keep in storage, and we have an incremental backup to our backup server that is managed by the Computing Manager of our department. The NAS option illustrated below was an option we considered but because we had the benefit of the backup server, we decided to capitalise on that.
Best wishes
Lisa
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bonewell, Perry
Sent: 29 November 2013 13:19
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Subject: Re: [MCG] Servers for Small Organisation Undertaking Digitsation Project
Probably not suitable if you're looking for a full blown network (and I confess I've no idea about the cost of that) but if you're storing and backing up images have you looked at Network Attached Storage systems at all?
For example:
http://www.synology.com/en-uk/support/nas_selector
These allow one disk redundancy (and presumably other brands do too).
In other words if a hard disk fails it can easily be replaced with a new one with no data loss.
Perry
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Natalie Watson
Sent: 29 November 2013 12:39
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Subject: [MCG] Servers for Small Organisation Undertaking Digitsation Project
Could anybody recommend some options for setting up a server for a small organisation to link around 10 computers together, which could also handle the storage and backup of a significant number of images that will be created as part of a digitisation project. Having not set up a server before, what equipment do you need and what things do we need to consider? Does anyone have any recommended companies and software to go with?
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