[rescue] Cheap 1U PC's

[Zach Malone]

Why not just purchase a load of 1U cases, and any time someone has a project
which they wish to locate in your computer room, make them mount it in a
chassis?  It sounds as though your users know what they are doing.  If that
is not a solution, Nick is probably right, contact Dell or another OEM and
get a number of servers built.  As I understand it, the bottom recently fell
out on the low end server market.  The 400$ Gateway server of last month has
caused all the major OEMs to drop prices on the sub-1000$ machines.
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: <nick at snowman.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Cc: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Cheap 1U PC's


> I'm going to move this over to geeks and start a flamewar by suggesting
> you look at the low end Dell 1u boxen.  I've been really happy with the
> Dell 2450 I own, and the others I've worked with (1550s, alot of
> 2450s).  They are reasonably priced (< 1k) and all in all quite decent
> boxes.
> Nick
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Hatle, Steven J. wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I'd like to find a source for an inexpensive 1 or 2 U rackmount PC.
Don't
> > need RAID, redundant power, dual-processor or anything like that- just a
> > Celeron or PII or ? processor, IDE, video and Ethernet.
> >
> > These are to replace the seemingly growing amount of old desktop PC's
that
> > someone throws Linux or NT on for a "special project" and then end up
being
> > permanent or semi-production boxes that I then have to accomodate in our
> > data center. They're not mission critical, but they take up a bunch of
> > space. We've consolidated functionality where possible onto our
production
> > servers, but these are the kind of boxes that people fiddle with, need
to
> > reboot occasionally, etc.
> >
> > I'd prefer to have these already integrated; I've researched the
> > pieces/parts, and would rather spend money vs. time to get these going.
> >
> > Any pointers appreciated.  .  .
> >
> > Steve
> >
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> > Steve Hatle
> > VUE - a Pearson company
> > shatle at vue.com
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