I picked myself up a good entry level Intel unit from Memory Express in October and another one for a client in November of last year.
CPU: E5220 4 port hardware raid 3Ware 4x 1TB Hitachi SATA drives 2x 80GB Hitachi SATA drives 6 port Hot Swap cage 3x2GB sticks of DDR3 ECC Intel chassis Intel motherboard Dual power supply Remote management board No rack mount kit on this unit, but it's available. Right now I'm running at about 1/4 of what the box is capable of for CPU and RAM: It can easily take another quad core CPU or upgrade to the Xeon octo cores when they come out and the RAM is upgradeable with another 3 sets of 2x3GB DDR3 kits - or go bigger if you like. It's been a great unit - my daily workhorse. I'm currently running it as a multi-purpose development & production box with between 15 and 25 Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos, and PFSense virtual machines at any one time. Some workstations with graphical interface, some headless servers... All told, it was around $4k including 4 years of IPR on all parts. I picked this one up after finding it was roughly equivalent to an $8k Dell, $11k HP, and a $13k IBM pre-built. I could have gone with a 2500 dollar desktop quad core with 12 GB of DDR3, but I wanted the upgradeability of the server system, didn't care if I had 3D graphics, 4 port hardware raid card, etc... Let me know if you're interested, I can pull up the specs. Prices will of course have changed since I bought it, but they shouldn't be too far off. On 2010/07/13 9:06 AM, Greg Saunders wrote: > Hi all, who are you using for server class builds? I use to source gear > through Elco (when they still had a Calgary warehouse), Supermicro from > Vmax in Vancouver and ya, Dell. > > But I'm wondering if there is anyone local who does good white box builds? > > Thanks! > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
