Servers are noisy and power hogs compared to desktops. Just another thing to consider.
Allan On Jan 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Tom Hargrave wrote: > All depends on what you are going to use the system for. > > I always buy Dell mid grade machines loaded with XP Pro for my > clients. I > know that there is a lot of anti-Dell sentiment our there but of > the 100s I > have turned on, I've had one DOA and no failures during the first > year. At > least none that were not operator error! I have had issues with RAM > & drives > later but these can't be blamed on dell. They are using the same > plug-in > parts as everyone else. > > As far as servers go, I buy Dell or HP. But these are true servers, > not > desktop machines running server software. They are a different > class of > machine, ultra reliable & very fast. > > If I were to put together a desktop for myself, I believe I would > find a > good retired Dell 2400 server with dual 1.0 GHz processors and a > full rack > of SCSI drives. Why dual 1 GHz & SCSI drives? Because processor > speed isn't > everything! A server and a desktop machine access memory > differently. A good > server will access the same memory faster then a desktop. Plus, the > SCSI > drives are usually 10K RPM & a 6 drive RAID with 10K RPM drives can > be set > up to run very, very fast. > > Thanks, > Tom Hargrave > www.kegkits.com > 256-656-1924 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mercedes- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:31 PM > To: mercedes Mailing List > Subject: [MBZ] OT, computers again > > Been looking into the computer upgrade thing. As I posted before, I > always custom ordered what I wanted as far as processor, memory etc > then > just transfer my other hardware over. Im getting a big headache > trying > to figure out what processor is what, what memory is what etc. Ran > thru > a few options and it seems its as expensive if not more than what > is on > sale at best buy or whatever. So would it seem I am better off just > buying whatever is on sale that fits my needs? Any certain brands to > look for? Do they sell them at the store that do not have a bunch of > crap preloaded on there? I hate buying those computers that already > have half their space used up by preloaded crap I will never use. > Another aspect I like of not buying the store computers is the fact > that > the cases etc are not always standard. With the custom ordered > barebones deals, you can swap whatever you want at any point. Power > supplies are standard, drive bays, etc. Stuff like that. Anyway, > enough rambling, thoughts? Most of these store bought systems come > with > Vista now. Is that a good thing or should I just look on ebay and buy > something there that may or may not have an OS installed? > -- > Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK > 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 300D, 92 250D Turbo, 92 300E 4Matic, > 91 300D, 90 420SEL, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE 5.0 > Euro, > 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 81 380SLC, 80 240D, 76 240D, > 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250 > http://www.okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.12/1245 - Release Date: > 1/26/2008 > 3:45 PM > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
