Here is a new Seagate hard drive for only $129 with a 5 year warranty, from a highly rated vendor: http://www.rubyskytech.com/ProductInfo.aspx?affid=5&productid=336607LC-XX5N
Here are new Dell rails for $80, a substantial saving. Can't find much about the vendor though: http://www.pacificgeek.com/product.asp?id=21765 These have a 90 day warranty, which should be good enough; they are unlikely to fail after that except by physical damage not covered anyway. I have not yet found a good source for Sun Fire v20z rails. We have a 4-post, round hole rack. If anyone can find a source for these, please mail the list. Also, per the wiki discussion at EnvironmentalPolicy and elsewhere, now that we're at Peer1 and have a quarter cabinet I think we should sign up for CoolWatts wind power carbon offsetting at http://www.nativeenergy.com/coolwatts.htm at the 5,000 kWh/year level, with monthly recurring payments ($4/month). I previously offered to donate the first year, so the amounts billed to the co-op can be debited from my account, and we can revisit this in a year's time or if our energy usage substantially increases, to determine if we want to stay with this provider. Adam, I would prefer that these be billed with the co-op's debit card. The shipping address for hardware is: HCoop Inc. c/o Peer 1 Networks 75 Broad St. 2F New York NY 10004 There's nothing to ship for the CoolWatts, unless you really want a paper certificate. -ntk _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
