[geeks] Are these servers that bad?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 06/18/14 22:13, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> Trying to figure something out...
> 
> I saw this on e-bay, and have seen similar deals over time..
> 
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/171360350238
> 
> That seems like a LOT of horsepower for a low price. I was long-gone
> from Sun by the time these came out, so I don't know about any quality
> issues or horror stories, but why so cheap for 16 cores and 64G of
> RAM?

32 cores, neh?  8x 4-core Opteron?

I'm a little afraid to ask how many kilowatts it draws.  But it'd make a
great compute server if you could afford the power.


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