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Okay I think I need a little more

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I think I underestimated the price a little bit. So we are back to 78.9%. I could buy a cheaper supermicro server and hope for the best as it is not certified for Centos 5 and has no warranty, or spend a little more and get a used, certified centos compatible server with a 2 year warranty and drives in it already. The dell server is definitely something that would work for a long time.

The difference, however, is me spending another $462 dollars.

At least we won't need a windows license!

If anybody still wants to donate, now is the time. I might just have to pay for it up front as the auction ends in 13 hours!

Also, if anyone want to buy my old Vaio s360 cuteass laptop @paul #31660 I am willing to part with it for $500 to make up the extra money. It is still a great computer. It was around $2000 when I got it less than 2 years ago.

On the other hand I might just go ahead and risk it on another supermicro ,that is what we have right now. But what if it doesn't work, it owuld be such a waste of money.
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  1. ajay ·

    Why not build your own? You don't need the 1U formfactor. You could build a kickass machine for about $1K.You're most probably I/O-bound anyways; so load up on gobs of RAM and get a scraming-fast Quad-core puppy.

  2. ladycroft ·

    i would be interested in your laptop!

  3. mrmike ·

    I'd be interested as well

  4. janelle ·

    @drew might be interested in a laptop.

  5. drew ·

    @drew is interested. It still has the RAM that you added? Anything else we should know about it?

  6. news ·

    The laptop has 1 GB of ram.

    The reason I do not build my own ajay, is because I don't have any extra time. I built the last one. It was fine. I ordered all the parts separately, put in the chips, the paste hte ram, the hardrive. Screwed everything together, etc.

    It takes time. No matter how easy it is. I am going to be dealing with several vendors for the parts, more time shopping, the time to put it together. Waiting for everything to come separately and then pickig it all up from the post office at night because I can't let them leave the server parts outside my house. Its not worth it when I can get a perfectly good used one for not that much more and have a two year warranty on it. I don't know if you ever had a Dell machine under warranty but hey basically service everything quickly.

    I am already going to be doing so much software configuration.

    As for the form factor you are right, I don't need a 1U in fact I would rather have a 2U for expandability as ease of working on it. However, the Dell I was looking at is not new but a used one, that comes how it is.

    When I priced out a new supermicro with CPU and hardrives, the used supermicro one I put the link to was cheaper.

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