[geeks] FYI - very nice price on a 1U Intel server

[Lionel Peterson]

Just got mine, haven't powered it up yet, but w/ 16 Gigs, dual quad-core CPU
and four drive bays this is a heck of a 'knock-around' system, esp. for the
$160 (delivered, with tax) I paid for it.

One post online said it was loud, but we'll see - I've got Dell 2950s and
1950s in my 'lab', I suspect this will be similar to them noise-wise.

Patrick, I may be interested in the MB manual if I can't find it myself.

I also picked up a Dell 'custom' server with dual six-core Opterons (12 cores
total), 64 Gigs of RAM and 12 drive bays (with an 8 port Dell PERC 6 RAID
card) no drives for $699 - that's an entire. Test VM lab in two rack spaces...
Just add drives ;^)

This second system was built as an MS SQL Server box, the same machine is
available for $399 with 16 Gigs RAM - they are listed on eBay.

Lots of bargains out there...

Lionel

On Dec 18, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:22:17AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Dell has some off-lease servers available that have some very nice specs
>> for the price (IMHO), I thought some here might be interested.
>>
>> The units have dual quad-core Xeon CPUs running at 2.5 GHz (L5420 Xeons),
8
>> Gigs of RAM (2x 4 Gig, with what appears to be four open RAM slots on the
>> MB), and a 250 Gig SATA HD.
>>
>> The chassis has (I assume) a non-redundant PS, but it includes 4 SATA
trays
>> in it's 1U chassis.
>>
>> The price is $212 (with free ground S/H), BUT if you use promo code
>> "Save30%Now" the price drops to about $150 - plus sales tax.
>>
>> Website: http://www.dfsdirectsales.com/ - click on servers (there were
>> about 8 left when I looked earlier - Note: the 30% discount code works on
>> any item in the refurn store, incl. laptops, desktops, monitors, etc.)
>>
>> This server appears to have been a custom/non-standard build for a large
>> customer for use as a compute cluster node? Web server front end? It ships
>> without rails, and, like some rackable brand systems it MAY ship without a
>> top.
>>
>> I know occasionally folks here are interested in such deals. and dual
quads
>> for $150 w/8 Gigs RAM in a 1U chassis w/ four hot-swap bays could make a
>> nice small storage array.
>>
>> I've ordered one, but there are many unknowns at this point (what is RAID
>> controller, memory used, expansion slot technology, does it have a DRAC,
>> etc.).
>
> We have a bunch of those at work (purchased used).  I believe they have
> no RAID, use PC2-5300P (maxes out at 24 gigs), allow at least one PCIe
> slot, I don't know about DRAC.
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