so i gotta pick up a new home server...

[Lawson]

what do you guys think about this?


Quad Xeon 3.2GHz 2GB DVD-160GB RAID 8600 GT Video 22" Wide LCD

[Craig]

depends what its for

[SonicSpeed]

Dunno, might just be better off building a cheap quad-core machine with similar specs. But for $650 with the 22" LCD its a good price.

[Lawson]

well i'm mainly going to be feeding 2 HTPC's and XBOX360. I'm gonna drop my 1TB drive into it for added storage.

2 things i want to accomplish:

1. Fast seek times and also be able to crunch a few numbers for a consulting project i'm working on. (thinking maybe i should drop another few hundred on a dell rack server with 15k RPM drives)

2. Stream my media over my 802.11n network, so of course i'm going to have to grab a card to accomplish this.

I have 2 rack servers already but they are setup on their own MIS and i don't wanna touch them so i'm just lookin to grab a tower machine that would fit nicely in my IBM rack.

[VincentVega]

Poweredge tower servers are designed to fit in rack, although they take up like 8U. you can usually get fantastic deals on them as well

[Teck]

I would suggest building a new box... I would use 2 Quad Core Xeons... Probably 8-16GB of ram, a high end raid controller and some normal 7200RPM/16MB Cache SATAII drives...

A high end raid controller ($400+) can make all the difference...

[SonicSpeed]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teck

I would suggest building a new box... I would use 2 Quad Core Xeons... Probably 8-16GB of ram, a high end raid controller and some normal 7200RPM/16MB Cache SATAII drives...

A high end raid controller ($400+) can make all the difference...

Lol Teck, he is looking at a $650 box and you recommend a $6k box.

Actually the Precision series is a desktop workstation, but I'm looking around and it doesn't seem like the 470's were ever outfitted with more than 2x Xeons.

[VincentVega]

They weren't

[Lawson]

so you think that listing is bogus?

@ teck:

He's right, i'm looking at cheap cheap cheap as this is just a spare machine that is more of a leisure.


//picked up a 2U rack server last night, here's the specs



* PowerEdge 2970 Rack Server: Dual Core AMD Opteron 2212HE,2x1MB Cache,2GHz,1Ghz HyperTransport, Energy Smart
* No Operating System

System Price : $1,109.00

Operating System
No Operating
System Memory 16 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz Dual Ranked (8 DIMMs)
Energy SmartHard Disk Drive
146 GB SAS Hard Drive 2.5(10K RPM)
146 GB SAS Hard Drive 2.5(10K RPM)
Processor Additional Processor: Dual Core AMD Opteron 2212HE; 2.0GHz,2X1MB Cache,1Ghz HyperTransport
Media Bay 24X CD RW/DVD Combo Drive
PowerEdge 2970 Rack Server: Dual Core AMD Opteron 2212HE,2x1MB Cache,2GHz,1Ghz HyperTransport, Energy Smart Hardware Upgrade
Bezel
1X8 BackPlane PERC 5/i, x8 Backplane, Integrated Controller Card
DRAC (Comes in Handy for remote admin), 5th GenerationNetwork Interface Card
Dual Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Intel PRO 1000PT Dual Port Copper Gigabit PCI Express NICUPS
Redundant Power Supply

[SonicSpeed]

I don't think its fully bogus, but a bit sketchy nontheless.

As for your rig, I would have to say that is a good server system. Heck that would even make for a nice gaming rig if it had a decent video card