[clue-tech] Cheap Dell server box

[Richard Knechtel]

EWW! As soon as I saw the word SATA, that was enough for me. I wouldn't go 
-NEAR- SATA! Especially one used by Dell!

Why? Lets see, one guy I work with has gone through 3 of them - burned up. 
He even had to have is case open with an osolating fan blowing into the 
case. Yes this was on a Dell PC even.  We just had another guy on Thursday 
had his SATA drive fail/die/crash this was in a Dell PC that was less than 
6 months old. In a development environment you can' afford to 
be  rebuilding your system constantly because of drive failures.

 From my experience with SATA - it BLOWS!

I'll take EIDE or SCSI any day. Take the old tried and true!


At 10:13 PM 3/11/2005, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>   I hope that this isn't *too* far astray from the CLUE-Tech charter, but 
> I thought that this might be quite helpful/interesting to a few out 
> there.  Dell is currently offering a bare-bones Poweredge SC420 starting 
> at $229, which is approximately 55% off the list price.  Yes, there are a 
> couple limitations...
>
>  * No OS (like anyone on this list would care);
>
>  * The page states that Dell doesn't support using a graphics adapter on 
> this system (but I'm told there are workarounds posted on the 'net);
>
>
>   It looks pretty basic to me, but as a basic mail/web/low-end DB system 
> that you just SSH/VNC into, it seems just about perfect for what I'll be 
> using it for.  I upgraded to the P4 CPU & 160 Gb HD, & still got it for 
> about $350 _INCL._ shipping.
>
>   Link below, I have no affiliation (exc. for ordering/using/supporting 
> some of their PCs where I work), yadda yadda...  I hope this proves 
> helpful to someone.
>
>  http://tinyurl.com/6vdvt
>
>(NOTE: Do *NOT* look past the 4th item in the "Primary Hard Drive" 
>section!  It's a free upgrade from a 40 Gb SATA drive to a 160 GB unit.)
>
>T.
>
>(Again, please pardon me if this is off-topic, I'll likely be at the 
>installfest tomorrow if someone wants to raise knots on my head...)
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