Damn near foolproof building a box nowadays, and you can control the costs ... Right now I can get SATA drives around $90 per TB at Fry's so it makes for a good inexpensive desktop server.
(I'd rather have a rack and rackmount servers from HP, but this will do nicely for now ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 7:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hardware question... I'd rather pay someone to do it - been a while since I've touched hardware. Nice case, though. I'll keep that in mind. Kurt On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 16:13, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: > I built my own from i7 quad core CPU, gigabyte mobo, ( only ) 6gb RAM , board > will hold up to 24gb, and some SATA drives in this Antec case : > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FTTNIQ/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_r > d_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000087ZQC& > pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0RSKPCTW3TRV2AD16K5V > > Very quiet, plenty of airflow, drive bays use suspension/isolation, > the one I found at Fry's included the power supply too, proper for the > i7 mobo and drives > > > > Erik Goldoff > IT Consultant > Systems, Networks, & Security > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:39 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Hardware question... > > All, > > I'm contemplating getting much more familiar with Xen for my own education, > especially now that it's supposed to be able to replicate VMs in realtime for > failover. > > I'm thinking of having someone put together at least one, and perhaps two > boxes with a single quad-core CPU and 8 or 16 gbytes of RAM and not much > else, for home use. No fancy video, just use the on-board NICs, no sounds, > etc. > > Is there a good, cheap online vendor who you'd recommend to put together a > couple of boxes like that? > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
