[Ukfreebsd] nice little storage server for 112GBP

[Mark Blackman]

On 31 Dec 2010, at 16:50, Ceri Davies wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 02:30:11PM +0000, Mark Blackman wrote:
>> 
>>> On 31 Dec 2010, at 11:18, Mark Blackman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> just thought I would let everyone know about this
>>>> deal on this potential storage server, if you've not seen it.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.it247.com/product/1/XXHSUK23/612275-421-HP-ProLiant-MicroServer-Dual-Core-1-3Ghz-AMD-Athlon-II.html
>> 
>> The CPU is pretty pathetic though, so you don't want to run 
>> any climate simulations on it. :)
> 
> Better than this thing I'm using at the moment for FreeBSD:
> 	VIA C3 Ezra (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU), 512MB RAM

1 hour and 17 minutes for "make -j2 buildworld" for reference,
so not terrible anyway. I tend to expect about an hour for 'make buildworld'
in general. 

- Mark