PowerEdge 850 (1u): Pentium D Dual core 3.2Ghz 2x1MB L2 Cache, 2GB 667MHz DDR
RAM, SATA Raid Controller, 2x250GB SATA 7200rpm Drives, 24x speed CD. Standard
next business day on site warranty support (nothing special) = $2744
PowerEdge 1850 (2u): 3Ghz Xeon 2MB L2 Cache x 2, 2GB 400Mhz DDR RAM, SCSI Raid
Controller, 2x146GB SCSI 10000rpm Drives, 24x speed CDROM. Standard next
business day on site warranty support (nothing special) = $4272
In the spirit of checking different vendors, I went to Penguin Computing and messed around a bit:
Altus 1300 (1U)
Single AMD Opteron 265 (Dual Core) / 2GB / 2 x 250GB SATA (7200RPM) / Slim 24X CD-ROM / Fedora Core 4 / STD 3-YR WTY / 3-YR, Next-Day, OSS -- $2,602.00
