Hi Felipe, I'd immediately exclude B, as apple hardware is sometimes a nightmare to jack with and, due to lack of proper fresh air inflow, their logic boards (=motherboards) die at a greater range than other vendors' ones.
Go on C if you just need bare power and an easy way to find spare parts in case of damages. Anyway, the machine C is not a server, so, if you don't regularly keep it clean (physically! be a dustbuster!), checked and backed up you might have surprises on the long run. Go on A if you need a real server, keeping an eye on disks (they will be "crunched" after all those years, so already plan a substitution with fresh ones). If the machine will be in order, it'll last for many years to come... (don't forget a good UPS!). Btw, if you are kinda "risky" you might also try to mount on it a gigabit card... although I dunno if the CPU can handle reliably that much throughput! Ciao :) On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Felipe Mesquita de Oliveira < fem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A) Sun Fire V100 UltraSPARC IIi 650 Mhz - 2x160Gb Hd - 2Gb RAM - CDROM -> > US$ 350 > > B) Apple Power PC G4 733 Mhz - 768 Gb RAM - 38Gb HD -> US$ 320,00 > > C) Atlhon 64 X2 +5200, 2 GB RAM, 160Gb HD -> US$ 320,00 > > The idea is to build an server with: WWW/Email/Firewall funcionalities, > with > better stablity as possible.
