Re: [ukha_d] Dell £99 servers are back

["Martyn Wendon" <mailing.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Received my £99 Dell Server today!

Seems ok for the money, although it's a little lacking in space for
internal
drives.

There is space for 3 hard drives, but that would leave them very close
together which may be a problem for drives that run hot.  There's space
above that for floppy / a.n.other drive, but the cage looks a bit small so
not sure if a hard drive will fit.

Drive connectivity is a bit poor too - it only has a single IDE port that
according to the manual it can only support CD / DVD data drives (and not
hard drives - maybe a transfer rate limit?).  Also it only has 2 SATA ports
so with one taken up for the system / boot drive this will only leave one
port available.  Plenty of PCI slots though so could always fit a scsi or
sata raid card, although finding space for the drives will be a challenge
as
per the above!

Memory is DDR2 EEC so not the cheapest, best place is Crucial as per Davids
message below - a 1 gig matched pair is £99 with free delivery - use the
promo code "INSIDER1" for an additional 4% discount!


Cheers,

Martyn




----- Original Message -----
From: "David Greaves" <david@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Dell £99 servers are back


> Best place I've found for memory for anything is http://www.crucial.com/uk
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> They guide you through the selection process and it's guaranteed to be
> the right memory. Free (or dead cheap) next day delivery usually.
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> The memory's still not 'cheap' though...
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> David
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> Roger Sibley wrote:
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>> Does anyone know of a good source of memory (low cost)for these
servers?
>> >From what I understand I'll need "DDR2 PC2-4200 (533MHz)
ECC" but
>> this seems
>> to be pretty rare other than direct from Dell at extortionate
rates.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Roger
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