New Server

For an office that small, I'd go to a white-box vendor and have them custom build you a server.

For $2012.78, I just built a dual P3 1.13Ghz RAID1 server with mirrored 60GB drives and a 1GB of RAM... and Windows 2000 Server licensed... It has the 3COM NIC and other stuff in it that can be modified, but that's a great place to look.

You can't go wrong with names like IBM, Compaq , HP or Dell.
If you have the purcahase freedom take a look at EBay. I recently puchased a Dell PowerEdge with dual PIII 1GHZ processors, 1GB Ram, a RAID Card and 5 36GB HS drive for less than $3500. The server actually still has 6 months of remaining warranty too.
If you do find something on EBay be deligent though. Do your homework and check into the sellers history and feedback.

Good Luck.

les

make quality servers.

I've used Dell, I've used Compaq. Personally I liked the last Dell I set up. If you need huge servers with lots of expandability, Compaq may have an edge, but that doesn't sound like the case.

I would personally stay awayfrom white boxes unless you are a hardware geek - with one of the top 5 you get a known entity, with a white box you may get both got product and good service, or you may get one or the other, or neither. Even if you are a geek, and you spec every part yourself, will the vendor of that custom box come out to your office within 24 hours of a failure?

You have to think more about your requirements. Do you need disk redundancy?
How big are your disk requirements going to get over the life of the server?
How often do I need a backup?
How much data will I backup?
Whats the impact if the server goes down?

Answer these questions and you can start to build a server spec.

James