[lug] Cheap Old Servers

[Chris Brotherton]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:25:13AM -0700, Joshua Rubin wrote:
> 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.
CU is having an public auction this weekend.  You might want to take a look at
what they are selling:

http://www.colorado.edu/propertydistributionservices/auc.htm

Chris.