[rescue] E3000's

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:49:36PM -0400, Todd Killingsworth wrote:
> Mine is much more baseline - 2-way 250, 512M, 2 drives - 2G and 4G.
> 
> But it has all it's skins, and I can nickel and dime parts from places as
> time goes by.
> 
> I don't know if it was the best deal, but I got it for a little over $350.00
> + $100.00 for shipping from Austin, TX.
> 
> Considering $300.00 would only get me only a SGI Crimson chassis three years
> ago, I'm happy.
> 
> I've not been running this continually, due to people's comments about power
> use. I'd rather see the power bill after occasional use first.  After all,
> my wife has that electric jet engine to dry her hair with, but it's not on
> 24/7.

It will be interesting to hear what it takes.  I figured that running a
modest Onyx full down in this part of the country would cost about $65 a
month.