Business Case
Computer Room VS PSE38
Based on a 60-person office with 9 x servers, switches, patching, UPS, KVM and tape backup
Budget
- Server Room = £10k to £20k
- PSE38 = £3.5k
Typical Floor Space
- Server Room = 9 square metres
- PSE38 = 0.9 square metres
Electrical Usage
- Server Room = 3000 Watts
- PSE38 = 57 Watts
Air Con
Server Room
- Wholly reliant on dedicated room aircon
- Servers overheat and shut down if it fails
- Small body of room air = short overheat time
- Restoration by specialist engineer call-out
PSE38
- Uses room air in open office, with aircon or not
- Large body of room air = long overheat time
Simple, hot-swappable fan modules:
- much less complex than aircon
- average life of service of fans is >8 years
- Hold a spare fan module = instant up-time
Deployment
Server Room — 4 to 6 Months
- Internal resources needed for planning
- Landlord approval drawings and timescales
- Landlord can be a problem in old buildings
- Construction disruption and lead time
- Aircon machinery and ducting lead time
PSE38 — 2 to 4 Weeks
- Typical lead times from Onorin Storage Systems
- Often available ex-inventory
- Unpack-and-place delivery service is standard
- Delivered fully built and plug-and-play ready
Scalability
Server Room
Repeat as above
PSE38
Just add another Office Server Cabinet Pro
Portability
Server Room
Sunk cost not recoverable if you were to move
PSE38
You can take it with you when you move
