[geeks] FYI - Low cost Dell Opteron Servers

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:29 , Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:46:53AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> 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.

> Add an eSATA adapter and put one drive external?

For just extra storage, sure, though I would likely use Firewire.

I meant something like one primary OS drive, and a pair of bays for  
RAID.

Just one more bay... :)

Unfortunately, have to decide by midnight tonight when the sale ends.


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