Blurgleblub

Been one of those weeks.

Anyway, on the previous subject, this puppy would likely be a little more budgetarily feasible:

Supermicro SC111LT-330 1U Chassis $215
Supermicro H8SCM-F Motherboard $235
AMD Opteron 4180 CPU $206
4GB DDR3-1333 ECC Registered RAM x2 $276
Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB x 3 $261
Intel 80GB X25-M SSD $249
Supermicro Slim DVD-ROM $55

Total: $1497

That's for a 6-core 2.6GHz processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB available disk in RAID-5, and a nice 80GB SSD.  Dual GbE and IPMI for remote management.

Alternately, this:

Supermicro SC111LT-330 1U Chassis $215
Supermicro X8SIE-LN4F Motherboard $225
Intel Xeon X3430 CPU $219
4GB DDR3-1333 ECC Registered RAM x2 $276
Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB x 3 $261
Intel 80GB X25-M SSD $249
Supermicro Slim DVD-ROM $55

Total: $1500

Very similar overall; this CPU is a quad-core 2.4GHz, but with a somewhat better architecture and hyper-threading, so performance would be close to the AMD chip.  This motherboard comes with quad GbE, so I can have lots of fun inventing weird network topologies.

Either one would run Minx with no problems at all; they wouldn't run the CPanel accounts, though; Apache and PHP chew up memory and CPU like nobody's business.  There's not much expansion space, though, except for RAM - up to 32GB of affordable modules, and on the AMD board, up to 64GB of really expensive ones.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 10:09 PM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 225 words, total size 2 kb.