2008-2009 Budget
From UGCS
We have $5000 to spend. Here are some possible budget items:
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[edit] 400gb hard drives for Persephone
These will let us keep more backups on persephone, instead of having to put everything on tape. This will let us do more frequent backups of our stuff. We'll buy them used off of Ruddock (Old robjohn stuff) for a discount.
- Cost: ~$100 (2x cartons of paper + a lock)
These are already bought.
[edit] LCD Monitors
We need some. Badly. I hate the )%^* CRT's.
- 5x $200 22in widescreen LCD's. These are reasonable quality, and cost-effective. We would use these to replace the CRT's on the middle table and off to the side.
- 2x cheapo LCD's (probably $150 or so) to replace the other two CRT's in the lab.
Cost: $1300
[edit] Athena/Apollo Replacement
I think trying to re-use any part of old athena is silly because if something else breaks, it will be horribly expensive to replace (IDE stuff is hard to find, 750gb IDE drives cost $150). The current idea is to replace apollo, and then have the old apollo hardware become athena.
We could probably build a replacement server for $1500-$2000 if we wanted to replace apollo/athena.
- Server barebones http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101073 It's $1200, but it quite nice.
- 4x 1.5TB drives ($800 total) or 1TB drives ($600) or 750gb drives ($400)
- CPU $250
- Ram $200
Total: $1650 + disk option (so up to $2400) This combined with LCD's eats up almost all of our budget... ouch
[edit] Cable protector
Since we're not going to get a power drop to the center of the room, we should get a drop-over cable cover to protect the network/power running across the floor
[edit] Wiring Ducts
It'd be nice to be able to neatly run cables along the wall. We can do so inexpensively with some wire duct
- See http://cableorganizer.com/wire-duct/economical-wiring-duct.html , we could probably do it for ~$100-200
- This would also let us move the third switch back into the server closet, where it is needed
[edit] Gigabit switch
I would like to buy a 12+port gigabit switch for internal use. It would run on the second NIC of some servers, and allow for higher-speed server-server communication (mostly for DRBD, also for backups) that wouldn't compete with the server's main network connection. We wouldn't use a fancy Cisco switch for it, just a dumb gige switch (since it's all our servers on it, we don't vlans)
- Cost: $300
