Cheap one U servers?

Lou Kamenov lou.kamenov at aeye.net
Wed Sep 18 11:45:08 BST 2002


In some email I received from Lou Kamenov at Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:40:15AM +0100: 
> In some email I received from Pete French at Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:34:38AM +0100: 
> > > Does anyone know of a source of cheap one U servers?
> Try to assemble them? i think it will be cheaper.
> > 
> > how cheap ? I just got a load from rackservers.com - and if you go
> > for the gigabyte ones which come as a single unit then they work out
> > O.K. the last one wa a P4 1.7 with 512 meg of RAM for 700 quid. WWe
> Dual Athlon MP2200 will perform better than this, and it`ll be cheaper. 
not for a rack, basically it will overheat.. anyways.. i`m wrong.
but however it has the *right* cooling it will be alright i suppose.

> 
> > also got a set of 2.4GHz P4 servers with 1.5gig of RAM and some 15000RPM
> > ultra 160 drives for 1500 quid each. They run FreeBSD really nippily :-)
> > 
> > -bat.
> > 
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> cheers,
> -lk
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-lk





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