That is one thing I really like about the Dell T110. All standard parts.
Non-parity RAM, standard SATA hard drives. Almost all of the used servers I
have looked at use SCSI drives or SAS drives. Now I know SAS drives are not
that expensive but at $120 for a 750 GB drive where SATA costs $70 for
I'm not entirely sure if this is true across all ranges but early last year
Dell started to "block" non Dell branded drives from being used in their
PowerEdge line. I'm not sure if they backported this into firmware upgrades
or it is just for new systems. This is really no different than what HP or
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Daniel Owen wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure if this is true across all ranges but early last year
> Dell started to "block" non Dell branded drives from being used in their
> PowerEdge line. I'm not sure if they backported this into firmware upgrades
> or it is jus
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Daniel Owen wrote:
>
>> I'm not entirely sure if this is true across all ranges but early last
>> year Dell started to "block" non Dell branded drives from being used in
>> their PowerEdge line. I'm not s
Thanks for the followup on that. At the time I was buying Dell servers they
all had PERC controllers so I either never realised there was this
demarcation line or I forgot it because it was not relevant to me.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:
To clarify, it is the PERC H700/800 line that does this... so even the entry
level PERC controllers will still take any drive.
Andy
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Daniel Owen wrote:
> Thanks for the followup on that. At the time I was buying Dell servers they
> all had PERC controllers so I e
Further research has shown that if you are buying a T110 with 4 Gb RAM and
expanding to the 3 Year service agreement it is only $22 more for the same
spec in a T310. The T310 has the following additional features:
Available Redundant Power Supplies
6 DIMM sockets vs 4 DIMM sockets on the T110
4 G
A thought on the alternative options. Again a question of what you want to do
with it.
If you look at rackspace and pricing of a cloud computer, They have it down to
$11 a month for the compute time and then add on your bandwidth.
I priced it out for 512meg ram, 20gb drive, and 5gb each way and i
I work for Amazon and you can get up on their free tier for a year.
http://aws.amazon.com/free/
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:08, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
> A thought on the alternative options. Again a question of what you want to do
> with it.
>
> If you look at rackspace and pricing of a clo
Very tempting on both cloud fronts, especially the free one. I am
investigating what additional storage costs are as I have quite a bit of
data (~0.5 TB) on my server that I would have to move so paying for the
storage as well as the data move, unless they don't count the initial load
in your netw
BTW I'm a paying user of AWS as well, and the largest bill I've had is
about 15 dollars for data transfer, the S3 and EC2 products have
usually been < $5.00/month. It's pretty cheap, and, like I said, I
liked the product even before I started to work here. :)
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:47, Alex Sm
Amazon has the Elastic Block Store product, as well as the famous
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
http://aws.amazon.com/
This site can answer all your questions.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:36, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> Very tempting on both cloud fronts, especially the free one. I am
> in
Alex, is there any way you could do a demonstration about Amazon EC2/S3 some
day?
(Sorry to thread-jack, but I find Amazon's hosting really interesting and
I'd love to see someone really lay it all out and show how it would work,
from A-Z.)
Chris
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Alex Smith (K
I wish I could, but I'm in Washington DC now. I can point everyone in
the direction of the Amazon Web Services page...
http://aws.amazon.com/
I use their EC2 service to have a public facing Linux server, and run
some Icecast relays on it.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:56, Chris McQuistion wrote:
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