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HELLO.

 

CAN ANYONE RECOMEND ME, A PC FOR DATABASE SERVER?

THE MACHINE NEEDS TO BE RUNNING 24/7 AND IS FOR A SMALL BUSNIESS

THANKS

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What type of database (SQL, Oracle, Access, DBASE4), size of database, number of users and what's the budget ? If this is for a small business do you need redundancy and / or backups in case of failures ?

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SQL, 5 clients, i think we need redundancy at least RAID 1, the budget is no problem

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My suggestion would be to look at an entry level server some like this.

http://www.misco.co.uk/product/202667/Dell-PowerEdge-T110-Tower-Server-Intel-Xeon-E3-1220v2-3-1GHz-4GB-Dual-Rank-U-DIMM-500GB-3-5inch-7-2k-SATA-HDD-No-Optical-1yr-NBD

And one of these and configure RAID 1

http://www.misco.co.uk/product/202668/Dell-500GB-3-5inch-7-2k-SATA-HDD-for-Dell-PowerEdge-T110-Tower-Server-SKU-202667

and finally and enough memory to cover the size of you database + 4GB for the OS

http://www.misco.co.uk/Product/202669/Dell-4GB-DDR3-1333MHz-LV-2RX8-ECC-U-DIMM-FOR-DELL-POWEREDGE-T110-TOWER-SERVER-SKU-202667

I would also consider looking at a UPS and some sort of backup device maybe an external HDD if you don;t want to spring for an expensive tape drive.