[geeks] FYI - Low cost Dell Opteron Servers

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2008, at 17:41 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> Depending on what you want to boot off of, there is an IDE  
>> controller, so you could add an IDE -> Compact Flash adapter[0]  
>> and boot off a CF card, leaving two (or three) HD bays without  
>> touching the floppy bay. For further expansion, I'd look to eSATA  
>> - I just saw some nice IOGear SATA controllers (PCI Express 1x, 2  
>> port external and they support port multipliers) for about $35 at  
>> microcenter.com[1][2].
>
> I took the plunge and ordered one with the low end CPU and 4GB of  
> RAM, and the DVD-ROM (I assume it isn't a writer, wonderful if it is).

When you say low end CPU, do you mean the lowest Opteron, or do you  
mean the Sempron?