[rescue] Cheap 1U PC's

[Hatle, Steven J.]

Which Dell is at ~$800? I just took a quick spin, and the best  I found in a
non-exhaustive trip was a PowerEdge 350 for around $1200.00. 

Al's suggestion of gtweb.net netted a quote of around $800 for a 1U 500 Mhz
Celeron with 256M memory, 20 GB 5400 RPM drive and CDROM. Plenty of box for
what I need.

If Dell can come close $$-wise, I'd certainly consider them. Point me in the
right direction! <grin>

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: nick at snowman.net [mailto:nick at snowman.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:05 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Cheap 1U PC's


Honestly I havn't been able to find a 1u system of decent quality that i
could build for the ~800$ the dells start at.  1u cases cost a fortune.
	Nick

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Zach Malone wrote:

> 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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