On May 12, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Simon Chatfield wrote:

>
> Thanks for helping me discover the meaning of life....
> but I'm not going to tell you what it is. :)
>
> Where did you get it Sam? Good system/price/service?


Hee.   I didn't want to contribute to *too* much OT.   And I'm a bit  
scatterbrained today.. I'm moving again, which never helps my long  
term concentration. :)  As it turns out, there was a place that sold  
reconditioned rack mount servers a *block* from the colo facility we  
use, which is where I happened to be at the time.

http://www.southwestcomputersolutions.com/index.shtml

I paid $250 for an Dell Poweredge 2450 with dual 866's, half a gig of  
RAM, and two 18G SCSI's in them.   I checked online and that *seemed*  
to be about the going rate on ebay and such.   Not having to worry  
about shipping or uh, even driving particularly far was a consideration.

They had a bunch of interesting things over there.  Tried to sell me  
a pretty nice Sun cabinet.   The PDU was 220, and I don't think it'll  
fit in my closet, so I passed.    Though, I would like a wet bar at  
some point, so I may reconsider.

The purpose I'm using it for requires a little more disk space than  
the two 18's it came with, so I'm going to hit Fry's tonight and hack  
in an SATA drive.   Then, into the cabinet it goes.

Once again, thanks a bunch for your help, folks.

-- 
Sam Mulvey
sm@vis.nu


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