[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is this dell xeon a decent buy

[Bryan N Iotti]

I perfectly agree with Saso.

The N40L we have in the University is a great little machine. Cheap, useful and just plain nice to work with.

Unless you need or want powerful CPUs, the Microservers are the way to go, and way cheaper.

Bryan

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  Original Message  
From: Saso Kiselkov
Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 19:41
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Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is this dell xeon a decent buy

On 6/1/14, 7:27 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Just looking for some opinions on an ebay machine I am thinking of
> buying for an oi zfs server
> 
> I do not know enough about specs and so forth to tell if this is an ok
> purchase.
> 
> Understand that my usage is strictly home lan... so very light and
> nothing commercial.
> 
> I want a machine that won't have all kinds of unruly hic-ups and etc.
> 
> I don't mean like worn out hardware etc but just not being that
> compatible for my intended use.
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome but also understand that I want something
> I can just install oi on and get going so not not (at this particular
> time) interested in building up a machine myself.
> 
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-6650-Enterprise-Server-2-x-Intel-Xeon-1-5-GHz-8-GB-/261423732486?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item3cde119706

That huge box is likely to cost you in electricity per year what its
purchasing price is on ebay. In your place, I'd rather spend half of
that $600 on an HP Microserver N54L. Don't underestimate what
Microserver can do either. Those things are capable of taking up to 16GB
of ECC DRAM & easily saturating 1 gig Ethernet when operating as a file
server.

Cheers,
-- 
Saso

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