Computers & hardware
Server and NAS deployment in Islamabad and Rawalpindi
A server or NAS gives an office one place for its files, with redundancy and a backup that is actually tested. A business NAS with mirrored drives starts near PKR 180,000 deployed, and the deployment matters more than the box — an untested backup is not a backup.
- Typical price
- From PKR 180,000
- How long it takes
- A NAS deployment is one to two days including the backup test
- Site survey
- Free in Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Establish what has to survive what
A NAS with mirrored drives survives a drive failure. It does not survive theft, fire, or somebody encrypting the share. Those are different problems needing different answers, and conflating them is the reason so many offices discover their 'backup' was a second copy in the same room.
Size storage and choose drives for duty
Current data, growth rate, and how long history has to be kept. Drives are specified for continuous operation rather than desktop use — a desktop drive in a NAS running around the clock in a warm room fails early, and it fails at the same time as its twin because they were bought together.
Deploy with permissions that mean something
Shares structured by department with permissions set deliberately, not everything open to everyone. The unit goes on the UPS and on its own network segment where the environment calls for it.
Configure backup and restore a file in front of you
Automatic backup to a second location — an external set rotated off site, or cloud where the connection supports it — and then we restore a real file from it while you watch. Every deployment ends this way, because that restore is the only proof the backup works.
What the price covers. PKR 180,000 covers a business NAS with mirrored drives, deployed, permissioned and backed up for a small office. Larger units with more bays and higher capacity run to PKR 500,000. A rack server with a hypervisor for line-of-business applications is quoted after a workload study.
Included on every visit
- What-survives-what discussed and agreed before specifying
- Storage sized for growth and retention, not just today
- Drives specified for continuous operation
- Shares and permissions structured by department
- Unit on the UPS, segmented where appropriate
- Automatic backup to a second location configured
- A real file restored from backup in front of you at handover
Questions people ask
Is RAID a backup?
No, and this misunderstanding costs offices their data regularly. Mirrored drives protect against one drive failing. They do nothing about a deleted folder, a corrupted file, ransomware, theft or fire — all of which are copied faithfully to the mirror the moment they happen. You need a genuine second copy, ideally somewhere else.
NAS or cloud storage?
Both, usually. A NAS gives fast local access to large files, which matters when your upload speed is a fraction of your download. Cloud gives an off-site copy that survives the building. The common pattern here is working files on the NAS and an automatic nightly push to cloud, sized to what your connection can actually carry overnight.
How do I know the backup is working?
By restoring from it, on a schedule, not by checking that the job says success. Backup jobs report success on empty files, on partial sets and on media nobody has read in a year. We restore a real file at handover and set a reminder to repeat that test quarterly — it is the only check that means anything.