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id@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 4:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Sometimes, just sometimes, I really hate you guys (he says after 45 minutes of reading SSD info from storagesearch.com...) ...must...have...SSD Check out these stats: User Experience

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:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Maybe great, but not for the budget conscious .. A 30 GB SSD costs more than a consumer 1.5 TB SATA drive Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopensta

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teven M. Caesare" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 04/11/2009 15:32 Subject: RE: Home Servers Wait? she complains about _VM?s_?? -sc From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re:

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om: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers And you are running your surveillance software on a VM? What software? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM, N Parr wrote: Ok Ken, you finally made me

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bject: RE: Home Servers Wait... Do I see an "Outdoor Projector" on that? *drool* --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 04 No

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Hehe... I have connections outside to set that up too... is fun for summer parties. -sc -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Wait... Do I see an

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- > *From:* tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:19 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Home Servers > > +1 > > The SO already complains at the fact I have 13 vm's and 2 physicals at > home. > > R

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ubject: RE: Home Servers > Ok Ken, you finally made me get in gear and do a layout. Who else can > up the bar, there's got to be bigger nerds than us out there. I know I > forgot something. Standard answer for the SO asking "why are you doing > that" is "Because I

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Host and guests on local storage. http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae176/bitfarmer75/Home.jpg From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers +1 Th

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..@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Sometimes, just sometimes, I really hate you guys (he says after 45 minutes of reading SSD info from storagesearch.com...) ...must...have...SSD Check out these stats: User E

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+1 -Original Message- From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Agreed - I drool every time I see it. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor

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mance hit of read/write head thrashing > > Erik Goldoff > > *IT Consultant* > > *Systems, Networks, & Security * > > > -- > *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:28 PM > > *To

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2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers True, but I would consider a 60GB SDD ($150) for the OS. Anyone remember RAM drives? You're literally putting the whole OS on one. Sorta. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025

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ldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Maybe great, but not for the budget conscious .. A 30 GB SSD costs more than a consumer 1.5 TB SATA drive Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, &

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M To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I've just decided that I need to get current gen SSDs for just about everything I can. I bought an OCZ Vertex (Indilinx controller) last weekend, and this thing is awesome (compared to mechanical disk, and earlier SSDs that I've had). M

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Don't hate the playa... hate the spindle. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Sometimes, just sometimes, I really hate you guys (he says after 45 minutes of reading SSD

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ember 04, 2009 7:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I've just decided that I need to get current gen SSDs for just about everything I can. I bought an OCZ Vertex (Indilinx controller) last weekend, and this thing is awesome (compared to mechanical disk, and earlier

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Indeed. Have I mentioned I'm not a big fan of Java or javascript? -sc -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Clearly this is e-mail not G

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NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Cha. The new E6500 I'm using is SSD based. I sent this message 3 seconds before I finished typing it. -sc -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System

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Clearly this is e-mail not Google Wave. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Cha. The new E6500 I'm using is SSD based. I sent this message 3 se

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Cha. The new E6500 I'm using is SSD based. I sent this message 3 seconds before I finished typing it. -sc -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I&#x

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Longer for the shutdown sequence I'd guess. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers What does that have to do with VM's? From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pa

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Oh. Man, I would have never guessed THAT. Time to invest in a home Halon system. And emergency oxygen masks. -sc From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers She has

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t;bothered" by all the alerts. L So, I'm having to use a 3rd party product to occasionally scan for adware and other non-virus "malware." John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin

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Why do you need to scan? What benefit do you get over on-demand scanning? Cheers Ken From: John Aldrich [jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 3:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Me either… It annoys me when my

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y, most of them could be suspended I suppose, might play with that over the next week or so. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Ken Schaefer To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 04/11/2009 15:57

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Me either. It annoys me when my users do it and their computers can't get scanned by antivirus.. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers I can't

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To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > www.adopenstatic.com/temp/homenetwork.jpg You score so much geek cred every time you post that. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a re

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I can't quite get this concept of computers that are shut down daily... :) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: tony patton Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:54:02 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers The VM's have to be shut down, befor

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Um, I'm pretty sure ESX has a save state feature. Or just hibernate the VMs and turn them off? Cheers Ken From: tony patton [tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 2:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers The

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:44 Subject: RE: Home Servers What does that have to do with VM?s? From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers She has a fear of fire since she was about 2. Everything has to plug

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m:* tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:42 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Home Servers > > > > She has a fear of fire since she was about 2. > Everything has to plugged out bar the fridge at night. > >

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What does that have to do with VM's? From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers She has a fear of fire since she was about 2. Everything has to plugged out bar the fridge at nigh

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email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: "Steven M. Caesare" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 04/11/2009 15:32 Subject: RE: Home Servers Wait? she complains about _VM?s_?? -sc From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November

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Yep, I think that is more accurate :) Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: "Pauls Hotmail" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 04/11/2009 15:26 Subject: RE: Home Servers I prefe

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Sad. -sc From: Pauls Hotmail [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I prefer “SWMBO”;-) P. From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 November 2009 15:23 To: NT System

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S0 is a register. SO is a person. Ususally. -sc From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers S0? now that's an acronym worth remembering..lol. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM,

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Wait... she complains about _VM's_?? -sc From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers +1 The SO already complains at the fact I have 13 vm's and 2 physica

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I prefer “SWMBO”;-) P. From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 November 2009 15:23 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers S0? now that's an acronym worth remembering..lol. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, tony patton wrote: +1 The SO al

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on > Desktop Operations Cavan > Ext 8078 > Direct Dial 049 435 2878 > email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com > > > From: Ben Scott To: > "NT System Admin Issues" > Date: 04/11/2009 15:01 Subject: Re: Home Servers > > -- > &g

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+1 The SO already complains at the fact I have 13 vm's and 2 physicals at home. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Ben Scott To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 04/11/2009 15:01 Su

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Agreed - I drool every time I see it. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > www.adopenstatic.com/temp/homenetwork.jpg You score so much geek cred every time you post that. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

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rs Ken From: Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 4 November 2009 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers For those who are running ESXi on a home PC/server -- do you have a separate PC/laptop you use for personal use ? Or do you just create a VHD instance of

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers No probs, it needs PCI express 4x or greater, if you only have a 1x slot available it won't work, just a heads up. There also seems/seemed to be some issue with vlan with the card and esxi, but as I don'

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Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: "Erik Goldoff" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 04/11/2009 14:27 Subject: RE: Home Servers thank you very much for the follow up... I'm needing to add a NIC to my newly built i7 b

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vember 04, 2009 5:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers Hi Erik, The card in my home box shows up as 82575GB Gigibit Network Connection with the 4 nics. Google seems to report that this is either a Pro/1000 VT or a Pro/1000 QP. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan

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From: Erik Goldoff To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 03/11/2009 14:48 Subject: Re: Home Servers thanks, I'll wait for your response ... last quad I used was an adaptec, but had it in a checkpoint/NT firewall On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:45 AM, tony patton < tony.pat...@quinn-in

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8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Harry Singh To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 03/11/2009 20:55 Subject: Re: Home Servers For those who are running ESXi on a home PC/server -- do you have a separate PC/laptop you use for personal use ?

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te: 03/11/2009 17:36 Subject: RE: Home Servers I have an Adaptec SATA RAID controller so that?s probably workable Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issu

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I have an Adaptec SATA RAID controller so that's probably workable Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers The drives aren't

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; a cheap Transcend 32GB SATA SSD Drive and then a mirror set for the guests. > Very quite and electric bill friendly. > > -- > *From:* Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:22 AM > > *To:* NT System Ad

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ent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I take it ESX has started being SATA friendly? It used to not be. My lab box has VMWare Workstation on it (and SATA spindles) but I've pondered reloading it before with ESX... Thanks, Brian D

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ny Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Brian Desmond To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 03/11/2009 15:23 Subject: RE: Home Servers I take it ESX has started being SATA friendly? It used to not be. My lab b

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so does ESXi 3.5 U4 From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers VSphere (ESX 4) supports SATA John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong

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...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I take it ESX has started being SATA friendly? It used to not be. My lab box has VMWare Workstation on it (and SATA spindles) but I've pondered reloading it before with ESX... Thanks, Brian De

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quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I'm running ESXi on a Dell OptiPlex 960 with no issues, the only niggle was when i went to put in the quad port nic was the chassis intrusion connection on the mobo was in the way, had

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off ebay or somewhere like that dirt cheap so that > was the reason I have a quad. > > > Regards > > Tony Patton > Desktop Operations Cavan > Ext 8078 > Direct Dial 049 435 2878 > email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com > > > From: E

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om: Erik Goldoff To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 03/11/2009 14:16 Subject: Re: Home Servers which quad NIC did you use ? On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:59 AM, tony patton < tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com> wrote: I'm running ESXi on a Dell OptiPlex 960 with no issues, the o

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That slickdeals.net site is in fact pretty slick. Nice find. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I got a Dell T100 (basic home server) for under $400 (no OS ) and you can usually

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side the room and barely > audibly when in the room. > > Regards > > Tony Patton > Desktop Operations Cavan > Ext 8078 > Direct Dial 049 435 2878 > email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com > > > From: John Cook To: "NT System Admin Issues&q

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435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: John Cook To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 03/11/2009 13:50 Subject: RE: Home Servers I got a Dell T100 (basic home server) for under $400 (no OS ) and you can usually customize them (I?d go for the Xeon proc if nothing e

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esday, November 03, 2009 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Look at the Dell Outlet. You can get a beefy refurb box for quite a bit less than retail typically. This is what I did. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Fogarty, Richard R CT

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Did that this weekend. Just wanted to bump prices against the other outlets first. Appreciate the comments. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Look at the Dell Outlet. You can

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y, November 03, 2009 7:24 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Home Servers > > > > A bit ago, there was a  recommendation for some prebuilt systems that people > have used for a lower cost alternative to the big boys (Dell, IBM, HP) for > some servers.  I can’t seem to

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AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Servers A bit ago, there was a recommendation for some prebuilt systems that people have used for a lower cost alternative to the big boys (Dell, IBM, HP) for some servers. I can't seem to recall that link. Anyone have that available? I'

Home Servers

A bit ago, there was a recommendation for some prebuilt systems that people have used for a lower cost alternative to the big boys (Dell, IBM, HP) for some servers. I can't seem to recall that link. Anyone have that available? I'm looking to rebuild by home network so I don't need anything too