Michael, Have you priced out either an HP/Compaq or a DELL server ?
It would probably be a bit more expensive, but I think they also come with 3-year onsite warranties. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am just starting to build a full blown LTSP lab at our school and I would > appreciate any feed back or ideas about the purchase of our server. Please > take a minute to look at our server config. > > It will run K12LTSP RedHat version, IceWM, StarOffice 7, Mozilla and The > Rosetta Stone. > > I expect this to support at least 50 thin clients running The Rosetta Stone ( > http://www.rosettastone.com ) on WINE. As well as allow students to surf > the net and type out letters. > > I know this config might seem like over kill. However, I expect to be running > WINE on at least 20-30 thin clients at a time. > > Summery of server: Dual AMD Opteron 240s 1.4Ghz, 4GB RAM, 4 x HD SCSI 15K > 73.4GB, RAID 0+1, 1Gig Fiber connection. > > This is a quote from CDW-G. However they won't provide a warranty. Do you > know of any vendors that build and offer warranty and support? > > Tyan Thunder K8S (S2880GNR) Extended ATX Motherboard 1 $510.00 $510.00 > AMD Boxed Opteron 240 Processor 2 $325.00 $650.00 > SIMPLE 1GB PC2100/PC266 DDR REG 4 $370.00 $1,480.00 > Enlight Server Case 8950 System cabinet 1 $510.00 $510.00 > Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S RAID 1 $410.00 $410.00 > ENLIGHT ULTRA3 SCSI HOT SWAP MOD 1 $265.00 $265.00 > Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 Hard drive 4 $675.00 $2,700.00 > > Grand Total $6,772.60 with shipping > > Thank you. > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn > For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> > --
