Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > Ok - sorry for being a bit quiet. I've had the flu and have been out > of any energy to do anything over the last 4 days or so. > > I've let this thread move along and see what people have to say. It > seems there is sufficient support to make this happen - and since we > have bandwidth and hosting provided for - the only burden on us is > getting hardware together. ok - i've taken a stab at it here are 2 > examples (Taken from dell because its easy to select things and geta > price immediately):
I hope the dell examples are just examples. I've heard all kinds of folks (particularily on the postgresql lists) who have had nothing but trouble out of Dell servers. I like Monarch Computer and you can pick and choose your hardware. Further, they do Linux. :) Also, I can drive to their location, thus if we need to do some price discussion, I'd be willing to do it in person. Maybe we should hit them up for some FREE hardware? I've picked a couple of comparable systems: > PowerEdge 850 (1u): Pentium D Dual core 3.2Ghz 2x1MB L2 Cache, 2GB > 667MHz DDR RAM, SATA Raid Controller, 2x250GB SATA 7200rpm Drives, > 24x speed CD. Standard next business day on site warranty support > (nothing special) = $2744 Dual Opteron 250s 2.4Ghz (64/32bit), 2x400 SATA 7200 drives, 2gig ddr (400) 3200 ECC ram, 16x DL DVD+/-, Fedora Core 4. This is the stock setup, you can tweak it on this link (swap the DVD for a cdrom...): http://tinyurl.com/dezfv From this page, scroll down to the 'price point' box and select 'around $3000' The box above is just under $3000 > > PowerEdge 1850 (2u): 3Ghz Xeon 2MB L2 Cache x 2, 2GB 400Mhz DDR RAM, > SCSI Raid Controller, 2x146GB SCSI 10000rpm Drives, 24x speed CDROM. > Standard next business day on site warranty support (nothing special) > = $4272 Dual Opteron 275 Dual-Core 2.2Ghz 1MB, everything else is the same as the Opteron box above. $4085 > > This is a SAMPLE. I personally would take the first option - cheaper, > likely overall the same spee (depends what u are doing though). ie > faster memory bus, but less l2 cache, but a tiny bit more ghz. > 7200v10000rpm - etc. > > anyway - do other peolp eant to investigate options elsewhere? > > NB: to people offering "i have a raid controller you can use" or "i > may have a spare cpu" - that's great - thanks, but really > impractical. Agreed. > Anyway - so what do you guys think? to me it seesm as if we have a > target of about $3500 to meet at this stage (we need some extra for > shipping and handling, and then some extra in the kitty for when > warranty runs out and we need new parts or we need to ship someone up > to the server to fix it etc. or whatever - i also just like > over-estimating costs and coiming out with a pleasant surprise) Where will the box reside? (Geographically) -- Until later, Geoffrey ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
