That is one thing I really like about the Dell T110. All standard parts. Non-parity RAM, standard SATA hard drives. Almost all of the used servers I have looked at use SCSI drives or SAS drives. Now I know SAS drives are not that expensive but at $120 for a 750 GB drive where SATA costs $70 for a 2 TB drive... especially since I rsync this thing regularly back to my RAID at the house. If / When I want more RAM or HD, it is going to be fairly inexpensive. I am currently looking at just about $530 for the server, 2.4 Ghz Xeon quad core cpu, 4 Gb RAM, a 250 GB SATA drive from Dell and a 2TB SATA hard drive from a 3rd party (TigerDirect or NewEgg). I am having a hard time convincing myself that spending $100 on a server, plus 3 x $100 for hard drives makes that used server for $400 not stand up so well to the new Dell at $520.
On a side note, they want about $120 for a 3 year warranty... not sure it is worth spending 25% of the machine cost on an extended warranty. Andy On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:52 PM, df9 <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the university you have a surplus > Outlet for there gear? > Last year I got a Dell leading edge > At UM Teripin trader for $50. > The catch was the drives cost as much as > An Apple home server each. > Dan > > On Jan 15, 4:29 pm, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Andy > > -- > 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]<nlug-talk%[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
