Dell £99 server !! + vat

[Rasclart]

and i thought i was a geek, exchange in the home, thats crazy!

I like to play with it , find it quite interested messing about with it. Always been into computers and have a completely non-it job so I still like doing it for the giggle. The server side of things is something I haven't conquered so into it I go, completely over the top for what I use it for but very cool at the same time.

tbh if i wanted to run an exchange server at home i would just run a vmware machine with server 2003, not worth running a totally separate machine.

Got given the bits and seemed like the best use I could put them to.

LOL was going to say I deal with exchange on a daily basis across different platforms and setups and I would NEVER set it up at home. b****cks to that LOL.

In fact there is only 3 of us in the office. NO dedicated server or Exchange server.

 

[Mike_182]

Got a Dell 1650 under my bed that used to be my exchange server here but I got bored of it... I have enough of the stuff at work to do!

 

[sn00p]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but these things are around £90-100 everywhere now, ebuyer etc.

 

[cava83]

Link to ebuyer?

Sorry to bump an old thread, but these things are around £90-100 everywhere now, ebuyer etc.

 

[Daz]

HP do similar ones, too.

£95/£100 for either the Xeon or Opteron versions.

 

[McBunny]

yup they are getting silly cheap

 

[cava83]

linky ?

 

[sn00p]

freaky. They had 75 in stock this morning when I posted, all out of stock now.

 

[sn00p]

HP do similar ones, too.

£95/£100 for either the Xeon or Opteron versions.

Sorry, I'm being f**king dim.

What I saw this morning was the ML110 that is mentioned in this thread somewhere.

It's available all over the place for the price I mentioned.

 

[TELFORDS_LURK]

I got one of these back in February when they were actually twice that price. http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/TVHP0286

Put some more memory in and another HDD, been running VMware server fine from day one.

Hardware is getting silly cheap atm.

 

[Cookie]

I'm still waiting for the 99 quid DL380's

 

[KDF]

There's a reason why it's £99


Dell Servers are gash

never had an issue with them and i have 7 of them at the mo and 4 of them have been running since 99 !!

Same goes..I run loadsa Dell servers and they are all rock solid ! Can't complain.

 

[Daz]

About the same as any I guess.
After installing probably hundreds of Dell servers (and maintaining them afterwards), I see quite a few failures, but most of the time, it's just hard drive failure. RAID controllers sometimes go, and RAM sometimes goes, but apart from that, even with the volume I'm seeing, they're being pretty rock solid.

Main thing with Dell is DOA - if it's going to fail, it'll be dead when we get it.. Heh. Once we fix it tho, it'll be fine.

 

[Mike_182]

Yep, got a room of 50 Dell PowerEdge 1650s and only one has 'failed' in the last 6 years - one of the Power Supplies went which sent a nice big power surge of *lots* through the Chipset, leaving a smouldering mess of an Intel chip. However, both Processors and all the RAM, the RAID add-in card and PSU that didn't go bang went into a 'new' 1650 Chassis and worked.

Got lots of DL140s to replace those now, had one DOA but out of 70 I'd say that's not bad going.

 

[Mike_182]

Main thing with Dell is DOA - if it's going to fail, it'll be within minutes of me getting my hands on it.

We've got someone like you! :clown:

 

[Mike_182]

I got one of these back in February when they were actually twice that price. http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/TVHP0286

Put some more memory in and another HDD, been running VMware server fine from day one.

Hardware is getting silly cheap atm.

As much as I want to hate that server for being a pretend server, I've just ordered 5 to play with.

 

[Daz]

Main thing with Dell is DOA - if it's going to fail, it'll be within minutes of me getting my hands on it.

We've got someone like you! :clown:

Haha, everyone knows one.. just helps with the comedy in the office.

I'd imagine you're Del Boy antics with "flogging lappys" is quite good for office moral!

 

[Mike_182]

Mate, I'm the magpie. I'll find anything that's about to go to the bin and make money on it.

Anyone want 150 256MB PC2700 SODIMMs?