[geeks] Dual Xeons - the Saga continues

[J. Alexander Jacocks]

I would also suggest watching some of the older dual-Xeon workstations.  I
have an HP Z800 with 2 6-core Xeons and 96GB of RAM that I got for a song,
from eBay.  It's quite quiet, and has power saving abilities that the
servers lack.

- Alex

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Keep an eye on dellrefurbished.com and sign up for their emails, they
> occasionally have 40-48% off coupons that can make those servers VERY
> affordable.
>
> Dell has retail, outlet, and refurbished stores.
>
> Retail is (obviously) current model computers.
>
> Outlet is refurb and so-called 'scratch and dent' current model computers
> at a
> discount off retail.
>
> DellRefurbished.com is off-lease equipment (meaning it is 2-3 year-old
> models)
> with limited warranty at a significant discount off original retail.
>
> Lionel
>
> > On Feb 8, 2018, at 9:13 AM, Michael-John Turner <mj at mjturner.net> wrote:
> >
> > That said, in retrospect I do wish I'd spent the money on a second hand
> 11G
> Dell, something that could take more 3.5" disks and more RAM (DDR3 RDIMMs
> are
> /cheap/).
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