Return on Investment:
Quiet Racks VS Dedicated Server Room

Deploying self contained cooling server enclosures instead of converting and cooling entire server rooms saves money.

The real life examples below calculate just how much money your business or organisation could save. And remember, even if you have already installed a server room, you can still save £1,000's by switching off your air-conditioning thereby saving energy and dramatically reducing your running costs.

Market Research Firm, Outer London Not building a server room saved: Total Savings Over 3 Years: £56,580 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		Audio-Visual Company, London WE Not building a server room saved: Total Savings Over 3 Years: £50,039 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
SME, Midlands Not building a server room saved: Total Savings Over 3 Years: £23,826 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		Middle School, South East England Not building a server room saved: Total Savings Over 3 Years: £26,727 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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