[geeks] Amazing! Tales from the Dell T30 trenches...

[Lionel Peterson]

Fair enough, I wanted something that included, in no particular order:

A Xeon CPU
ECC RAM
On-board (crap) RAID
Intel NIC
Expandability
Low power usage
Quiet
Reasonably-priced

The T30 hit all those points, and it was $400 after taxes and a 3 year NBD
service program ($34, too cheap to ignore). As I plan on using this as a
training machine for Windows Server 2016 (I know), I can use the Eval version
for free, 're-arming' the OS every 180 days for a total of 3 years of usage.

I don't need the machine to last 3 years, but Dell will make sure it will for
$34 more.

Also, Brand-new Kingston DDR4 ECC RAM is $91/8 Gig, $180/16 Gig, to a max 64
Gig supported by the chip/mb.

Quite happy with it, tomorrow I'm testing the AMT function...

Lionel

> On Feb 12, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>
> A T30 isn't really server-class hardware.  It's an Optiplex with delusions
> of grandeur.