[geeks] FYI - Low cost Dell Opteron Servers

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 14:08 , Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Just wanted to share a current promotion at Dell for their low-cost  
> Opteron tower server (starting at $249):
>
> - single socket 1210 Opteron
> - 512 Meg RAM (upgrade to 4 Gig for $69, 2 Gig for $19, and 1 Gig  
> for $9)
> - 80 Gig SATA drive (upgrade to 160 Gig for $20)
> - Gigabit Ethernet
> - Free SATA DVD-R/W upgrade
>
> So, for $338, you could have a server with 4 Gigs RAM & 160 Gig SATA  
> HD, with room for one or two more HDs. That is about a 60% discount  
> of list for the base system, and the upgrades are priced low...


I wonder if this thing is quiet?

It's tempting to pick one up instead of building out my own PC server,  
which I'm in the process of doing.

The only downside is I wish it had just one more hard drive bay.

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