[mdlug] Time to build a new server

[Carl T. Miller]

thomas at redhat.com wrote:
> He had the opportunity to go with a very expensive ($3500) low-end
> PowerEdge server that had ~ 8GB memory and an i7 processor with 1TB SAS
> storage.
>
> Instead, he went with a beefed-up Optiplex workstation with the same
> CPU, double the RAM and 4X 1TB SATA drives for about $1500. Same
> processing horsepower, more memory and more storage. He set up RAID 0+1
> or 1+0 (I don't remember which right now) and got a screaming fast box
> with fault tolerance for a pittance. He was able to buy a spare PSU at
> the same time. The rest of the stuff prone to fail - CPU and memory - is
> COTS stuff he can get locally in a pinch.

It's a good idea to just buy an extra cpu, dimm, power supply,
mother board and hard drive when purchasing one or more work-
stations intended to be used as servers.  That way you have
some parts on hand if needed, and it costs less than server
hardware.

c