The only time that I seriously thought about buying new servers, was when the guy from the big computer company came and did a big speech about how new servers can turn your business around and make the office run more efficiently. I was almost sold and then he pulled out the price sheet, I had to laugh and send him on his way after that.

I had always been told by my computer guy that used servers that have been refurbished or at least checked out by a trained technician are just as good as new with a much lower price. I like the much lower price part and trust my computer guy. He had installed some used poweredge servers into our building shortly after the meeting with the new servers salesman and we have never had any problems with them.

We have doubled our employees and since I took the advice of my very smart computer guy, the used poweredge servers that we installed were actually double the size that we currently needed but he suggested that for the future, we should put in the bigger used servers and it has paid off. I have stopped taking calls from salesman who try and sell me things that are too expensive and that I do not need.