$200 is an order of magnitude bigger than my budget of ~$20! Anyway, I have an offer of a slightly bigger specced box than what I mentioned in my original post, still for $20.
On 17/08/05, Hugo Vincent wrote: > I bought a Dell Optiplex (small form factor corporate desktop) with a > Pentium 3 733 MHz for $40 (from a friend, no RAM or HDD). > > I loaded it with an old 128 meg RAM stick I had lying around, and bought > a 200 gig hard disc for it. Total cost <$200, and it is a very > respectable server. I use it mostly for file/music/backup storage at > home over NFS (because my main computer is a laptop with a small HDD), > and also as a web server. Runs Debian Sarge (quite a minimal install). > The computer was cheaper than a USB/Firewire enclosure for the hard > drive. > > I thoroughly recommend the Dell Optiplex, because it is very compact and > virtually silent, and uses about 90 watts of power at full load. They > can be had from Trade Me for under a hundred dollars including RAM and > HDD. Yuri -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
