[lug] Cheap Old Servers

[George Sexton]

I've got a dual PIII 550 w/ 1GB Ram, a 9GB SCSI HD, and a SCSI DVD you could
have for $100.00. You'd be on your own for RAID. I would recommend a 3Ware
controller and some SATA or IDE drives.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
http://www.mhsoftware.com/
Voice: 303 438 9585
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us 
> [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Joshua Rubin
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:25 AM
> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
> Subject: [lug] Cheap Old Servers
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am in the market for 1 or 2 _very_ cheap old servers, less 
> than $100 plus 
> shipping. Just wondering if you have any suggestions. Right 
> now I have a P4 
> 2GHz/768MB server that works fine, but the disk is a single 
> IDE and just does 
> not have the speed or reliability of a RAID. So I am looking 
> at something 
> like a P3 500x2/512MB. I think that should be sufficient 
> processing power and 
> memory, but I would really need a multi disk raid.
> 
> I have been looking at some old dell poweredge servers that 
> meet all these 
> requirements, but I just was wondering if anyone had any 
> other suggestions, 
> or even better, some old servers they are looking to offload.
> 
> Thanks!
> Joshua
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Rubin
> joshua at rubixlinux.org
> 
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