suggestions for Buying a small server?

[Bryan O'Neal]

I am a fan of dell poweredge servers. Especially since they are
designed for and supported with linux (red hat is really the only
supported OS but SuSe support was technical supported for a while)

On 10/16/11, Phillip Waclawski <waclawski at mesacc.edu> wrote:
> I'm in the market for a small, cheap server machine to replace the aging
> Dell Workstations I'm using for my students (Pentium III Coppermine...
> really ;).
>
> I don't need anything special in the way of graphics. Need 2-4 Gigs of Ram (
> to be honest, haven't had issues with the 512Meg I have in the existing
> ones).
>
> Just want something stable, able to take 2 or more SATA drives and not be
> much of a power hog. I'll be using CentOS 6 on them. And I'd like to keep it
> in the low range for the student server, under $500 if I can.
>
> Dennis Kibbe has suggested some of the HP Proliant Micro Servers, and they
> do look interesting. I figured I'd just ask this group for some of their
> opinions,
>
> Phil Waclawski
> MCC CIS Faculty
>

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