2008-2009 Budget

We have $5000 to spend. Here are some possible budget items:

Contents 1 Summary 2 400gb hard drives for Persephone 3 Athena/Apollo Replacement 4 Lab Improvements 4.1 LCD Monitors 4.2 Cable protector 4.3 Wiring Ducts 5 Network Improvements 5.1 10/100 IPMI switch 5.2 Cheap Gige switch 5.3 Fancy GigE Switch

Summary

Already spent:

• $100: HD for persephone (already spent)
• $2600+ more: New apollo

We have $2000 left (as of June 12, 2009)

Lab improvements: $600 w/ nice couch, $325 with cheap couch

• Cable cover: $70
• Couch
  • A nicer one from Ikea is $500
  • A cheap futon from Target is $250

IPMI stuff $200:

• Switch: $80
• Patch cables: $20
• IPMI card for athena: $50

LCDs $800:

• Samsung 23in widescreen http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001317 $200 after rebate

These items leave us with $400 left if we buy a nice couch or $675 if we buy a cheap couch.

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.

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 ($500)
• CPU 2x$200 If we get a dual-cpu mobo and wait to buy the second one... we'll never find the exact same one and will be forced to buy two more.
• Ram $200

Total: $2300

Lab Improvements

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

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

• http://cableorganizer.com/fast-lane-drop-over/ , $70

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
• At the very least it could help manage cables going to colo machines

Network Improvements

10/100 IPMI switch

Most of our servers support IPMI, which allows remote management (and nice things like kvm-over-ethernet). They usually like to use a dedicated network port- if we got a new switch for this separate network we could have it set up and it'd be awesome.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817111015 - a 24port 10/100mbps switch, $70

Cheap Gige switch

• Cisco SGE2000
• 24 10/100/1000 ports
• http://www.eworldsale.com/linksys-24-port-sge2000-gigabit-stackable-switch-4-sfp-2-qos_6039_23469.html- $600

Fancy GigE Switch

• Cisco Catalyst 2960G-24TC-L
• http://www.tnetus.com/productdetail.cfm?pid=279 for ~$1600
• 24 10/100/1000 ports with full Jumbo Frame support