Re: buying a server

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

Oh wow.  I did a quick estimate on a server as you described from Dell, 
and got over $3900.  I can do the following for under $3000.  I have 
customers in this area (that you might know) using several of this 
particular box (both SMP and Uniprocessor).  Note this is a rackmount with 
redundant power supplies!  I have a tower server case that we like to use 
as well.. Nice & wide :-)  Good Air Flow :-)  The Dell servers have HORRID 
air flow.  The closest thing to my server from Dell is over $5000.

Chenbro 2U Rackmount Chassis w/ Redundant 460W Hot-Swap Power Supplies
6 hot swap hard drive trays (IDE)
FDD/CD-Burner
Dual 2.4 GHz Xeon
1GB DDR ECC REG memory
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
3 80GB IDE 8MB Cache HDD
3ware 7506-4 IDE RAID Controller

We only use Exabyte Tape Drives.  VXA-2 is higher capacity, and much 
faster.  Very nice.  Check out exabyte.com for details on those drives.  

I can give you a better estimate when I know precisely what you're looking 
for.  We're even doing Opterons these days :-)

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