Neil Schneider wrote: > Thanks for putting this together. As you know I have bought a previous > generation of these servers and though I don't personally like the > phoenix bios, all the pieces of the systems are first class.
Yes, those were beasts weren't they? :) These new generation boards are all EFI-based now, so the Phoenix crap is gone too. > Total > $2475 Hm, yeah when you look at it like that - twice the cores and twice the storage for just $500 more, it's pretty good. > I might even consider doubling the memory so that we have plenty for > virtualization, if the consensus is we should. This is less than half > our treasury, and other than a party, what else could we spend the > money on? BLQ never got his dance, now did he? :) We could do 8GB up front, but it might behoove us to wait a few months as the price of 2GB modules will surely drop. If we start out with 2x2GB, that leaves us 4 slots, and we could eventually upgrade to 8 or 12GB. Seems that starting with a 64-bit OS will be a wise thing to do. -- Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
