Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars

Eric F Crist ecrist at secure-computing.net
Fri Oct 21 16:05:53 PDT 2005


On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Matt Crossley wrote:

> Eric F Crist wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Matt Crossley wrote:
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>>> I've found that if it's not really all that heavy a load,  
>>> machines  at Dell that regularly come up are worth it.
>>> The latest one that I saw in a Dell flyer (in Canada), was a   
>>> Celeron 2.9, 512MB, 80 or 60GB, etc, etc for $349 CAD.
>>> Can beat it, in many ways!
>>>
>>> If you want to build it yourself, then maybe you can build  
>>> yourself  a little mini-ATX machine, one that's small and out of  
>>> the way?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Speaking of Dell... I know that I have seen some pretty nifty 1u  
>> rack  servers for as little as $450.
>> You don't to build it, but not a bad deal IMHO.
>>
>>
>
> hmmm, Do you have any links for that? I'd be interested, even if it  
> is US Dollars!
>
>
> Matt

Nevermind.  Must have been a promotion.  I was referring to the Dell  
PowerEdge 850.  I see now that it's priced at $999.

My bad.

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