Return on Investment: Quiet Racks VS Dedicated Server Room
Deploying self contained cooling server enclosures instead of converting / cooling entire server rooms saves money (see the real life examples below) and you can save £1,000's even if you already have a server room.
| Market Research Firm, Outer London |
Not building a server room saved:
Total Savings Over 3 Years: £56,580
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Savings Breakdown:
Rental Cost Per Year: £6,000
Aircon Running Cost Per Year: £2,860
Room Conversion Cost: £30,000 |
Equipment Deployed:
• 3 x Cisco Catalyst Gb PoE Switches
• 6 x Switches
• 3 fibre panels
• 1 x UPS |
Approx Max Thermal Load: 8kW
Quiet Rack Solution*: 3 x 42U racks
Quiet Rack Purchase Price: £6,000 |
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| Audio-Visual Company, London WE |
Not building a server room saved:
Total
Savings Over 3 Years: £50,039
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Savings Breakdown:
Rental
Cost Per Year: £6,400
Aircon Running Cost Per Year: £3,613
Room Conversion Cost: £20,000 |
Equipment Deployed:
• 2 x XServe (Dual Processor)
• 1 x Telephone System
• 2 x File Servers
• 10 x Render Nodes |
Approx
Max Thermal Load: 10kW
Quiet
Rack Solution*: 2 x 12U (stacked)
Quiet
Rack Purchase Price: £2,990 |
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| SME,
Midlands |
Not building a server room saved:
Total
Savings Over 3 Years: £23,826
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Savings Breakdown:
Rental
Cost Per Year: £2,100
Aircon Running Cost Per Year: £842
Room Conversion Cost: £15,000 |
Equipment Deployed:
• 2 x PoE Switches
• 2 x Tower Server (Single Processor)
• 3 x Servers (5 Processors in Total)
• 2 x NAS boxes
• 1 x UPS |
Approx
Max Thermal Load: 2kW
Quiet
Rack Solution*: 1 x 24U racks
Quiet
Rack Purchase Price: £1,165 |
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| Middle School, South East England |
Not building a server room saved:
Total
Savings Over 3 Years: £26,727
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Savings Breakdown:
Rental
Cost Per Year: £2,275
Aircon Running Cost Per Year: £1,634
Room Conversion Cost: £15,000 |
Equipment Deployed:
• 5 x mini desktops
• 5 x Dual Processor Servers
• 1 x fully populated RAID
• 2 x Switches
• 1 x Firewall & 1 x UPS |
Approx
Max Thermal Load: 4kW
Quiet
Rack Solution*: 1 x 42U racks
Quiet Rack Purchase Price: £3,250 |
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