Seeking advice on a Bid/Quote to a client
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@Bill-Kindle said:
And why WD Greens? I know the enterprise drives are a little more expensive but the performance gain IMHO is worth it when putting them into a Synology NAS.
I would very rarely go to enterprise drives, but I would likely go to Red drives. They are the same as Green but the firmware is changed to work better in RAID arrays. Generally the price is within a few dollars. In a solution of this size, the cost difference would be like .001%, I would just do it.
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@Dashrender said:
yes I completely forgot that I was going to mention this - your putting Green drives in a NAS? That's definitely not recommended. You should look at Red drives at least if not Enterprise Near-SAS drives.
It's not horrible, before there were Red drives we used Green in this way and they worked fine. If there is a significant cost difference and you use RAID 1 or RAID 10, Green is perfectly fine. But if the price is close, just opt for Red today, IMHO.
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@scottalanmiller The 2TB drives I got were about $180 a piece, but they are quiet, and I get good performance out of them. At the time I was purchasing, the Reds were a little more expensive.
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Just checked Amazon quickly:
WD Green 2TB: $80
WD Red 2TB: $100Might be worth staying Green. That's a 25% increase.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Did you pad your hours by at least 20% clients that have environments like this will have MANY other things to cause some scope creep as well as the "gotchayas".
Last major quote I did, I took what I though it would take me and doubled that number. Just told that customer that this particular part of the quote would be seperate and subject to change, which it did, and turned out to be half of the quote because I over-padded
They were happy as they thought they got a helluva deal, I was happy because I was able to do the work in less time than I had planned and still got paid well.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
I was happy because I was able to do the work in less time than I had planned
There should be a special word to describe the warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you finish an IT project in less time than you predicted. I just wish I felt it more often.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
I was happy because I was able to do the work in less time than I had planned
There should be a special word to describe the warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you finish an IT project in less time than you predicted. I just wish I felt it more often.
There probably is but it is likely a German word that we can't pronounce.
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Something similar to "Schadenfreude"
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@scottalanmiller said:
Something similar to "Schadenfreude"
But it wasn't their misfortune, they still paid way less than I could have charged and they let me get some experience I hadn't gotten yet. It benefited both parties.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Something similar to "Schadenfreude"
But it wasn't their misfortune, they still paid way less than I could have charged and they let me get some experience I hadn't gotten yet. It benefited both parties.
I'm just saying a word along those lines.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
I was happy because I was able to do the work in less time than I had planned
There should be a special word to describe the warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you finish an IT project in less time than you predicted. I just wish I felt it more often.
This happens to me all the time... Said no one ever.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just checked Amazon quickly:
WD Green 2TB: $80
WD Red 2TB: $100Might be worth staying Green. That's a 25% increase.
I will double check with the vendor on the drive costs but I do believe it was close to this. That is why I specified Green.
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@Dashrender said:
What version of Office are they moving from? 2003? If that's the case that shows they get a good long life out of those licenses, I'd definitely go with the OV instead because you will more than likely have to deal with reinstalls, and the value spread over 8+ years (yeah I know 2003 came out 11 years ago) the cost is pretty darned low.
They do have Office 2003 now. They do not care about any other benefits. They also disagree on the cost over time with machine updates and will go with the key cards. /shrug I tried.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
The CAL's seem a little high. I think I paid a few dollars less using Open Business for my licensing. Have you checked into that?
I use a preferred vendor unless the difference is more than 5%. Then I still might, but it will be a tough call.
@Bill-Kindle
Also, what kind of battery backup are you going to be using for this new setup?
Damnit. I knew I forgot something.
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@Minion-Queen I made use of the Veeam announcement today too. One of their questions was would Veeam backup their desktops too. MY answer now was 1st Quarter 2015 it will!
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@JaredBusch said:
@Minion-Queen I made use of the Veeam announcement today too. One of their questions was would Veeam backup their desktops too. MY answer now was 1st Quarter 2015 it will!
The community wins again!
