[lug] Cheap Old Servers

[Garett Shulman]

You could use that $100 on a second similar IDE drive and use software 
raid. In regards to the old Dell poweredge servers, are those from Dell, 
or ebay, or something like that? If you can get them with a warranty 
that is likely a very good deal.

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.
>
>Thanks!
>Joshua
>
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