[geeks] FYI - Low cost Dell Opteron Servers

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>Date: 2008/03/25 Tue PM 10:31:13 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] FYI - Low cost Dell Opteron Servers

>On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> On Mar 25, 2008, at 17:41 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> Depending on what you want to boot off of, there is an IDE  
>>> controller, so you could add an IDE -> Compact Flash adapter[0]  
>>> and boot off a CF card, leaving two (or three) HD bays without  
>>> touching the floppy bay. For further expansion, I'd look to eSATA  
>>> - I just saw some nice IOGear SATA controllers (PCI Express 1x, 2  
>>> port external and they support port multipliers) for about $35 at  
>>> microcenter.com[1][2].
>>
>> I took the plunge and ordered one with the low end CPU and 4GB of  
>> RAM, and the DVD-ROM (I assume it isn't a writer, wonderful if it is).
>
>When you say low end CPU, do you mean the lowest Opteron, or do you  
>mean the Sempron?

AFAIK the Sempron is not currently orderable - the 1210 Opteron is the low-end system.

Lionel