That does look interesting Bruce. What customer experience has anyone had with the folk at geeks.com? reliable source?
________________________________________________________ Mark J. Bailey Jobsoft Design & Development, Inc. 104 Arlington Place, Suite 100 Franklin, TN 37064 EMAIL: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] WEB: <http://www.jobsoft.com/> http://www.jobsoft.com/ VOICE:(615)904-9559 FAX:(615)904-9576 CELL:(615)308-9099 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce W. Martin Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 12:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nlug] Server Suggestion On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: ----- Original Message ----- I'm looking to standup a simple server and want server hardware rather than just a white box. Performance is not really an issue but reliability and price are. Any suggestions? I can get a Dell T110 for under $500.00. I looked at HP but they are more expensive for a lesser spec machine. Andy, you leave a lot open in your description of need. Here are some things to consider. Do you need virtualization, and what are the requirements of the kind of virt you want to do. If you want to go on a budget, I saw these recently, and it piqued my interest, but I haven't researched it much more yet. Supermicro 2 Xeon 2.8ghz, 2gb ram, 2 80gb IDE drives plus cdrom in a 1u. $92.99 http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=SB-613P-XI-XEON28X2-5R That's a pretty good deal but I think this is a better one and quite close to Andy's budget. http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SM-XEQ23X2-R <http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SM-XEQ23X2-R&cat=SVR> &cat=SVR Bruce Could you describe better what your constraints are? -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- Bruce W. Martin, KQ4TV Trustee for NT4UX Nashville Linux User Group - Amateur Radio- Special Interest Group NLUG-AR-SIG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
