The problem with that is that it stuffs you from a servicability perspective. You never know what parts are under what maintenance contract. We just buy the machines and run them for three years and then e-bay them. I am always reluctant to change the hw config as there is always some sort of drama involved with CPU steppings not matching or RAM blah blah blah that ends up being more trouble than it is worth. Changing the hardware config also invalidates any burn in you do as well.
The chassis pricing is always the enticing thing. You end up blowing massive amounts of cash on RAM and storage - the rack rate on those 720xds was something just over $40K each (not that anyone pays rack rate). For home, I'd never run a server. They chew too much power, put out too much heat and make way too much noise. You can run a lot of VMs on a small form factor Optiplex with i7 + 16 GB of RAM in it. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Katherine Moss <[email protected]>wrote: > Prices aren’t too bad if you minimally configure and then upgrade > later. I have a T110 at home, and I’m going to be upping it’s RAM soon. > **** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *David Connors > *Sent:* Sunday, December 09, 2012 6:06 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: List server hardware upgrade**** > > ** ** > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Katherine Moss <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Dang. Did you guys just upgrade or something? Those things are crazy. > I love Dell though, and the PowerEdge line is awesome! **** > > ** ** > > Just refreshed two of our production boxes with those. **** > > ** ** > > PowerEdge is good - esp for the price. The main reason why buy Dell > hardware is Pro Support.**** > > ** ** > > -- **** > > David Connors**** > > [email protected] | M +61 417 189 363**** > > Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors**** > > Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors**** > > Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors*** > * > > ** ** > -- David Connors [email protected] | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors
