2nd hand servers...

Dr. Z · 30-07-2008, 23:54

Alreet guys, I know all about eBay and servers, but this isn't for my personal use and so I need to be both a bit more discerning with spec and definitely price : performance as its not my money!

Basically, the brief is that I need to buy as many servers as I can for £800 but they must all be capable of running in a highish load environment. Talking about encoding streams for bandwidths upwards of 200mbit constantly, handling various other bespoke software and general stuff like web and mail servers.

I've arrived at a rough spec of a dual 3GHz Xeon 2U box with a couple of scsi drives of at least 36Gb with a reasonable raid controller and an absolute bare minimum of 2Gb RAM - these boxes will be running VMWare ESX.

Anyone know of some end-of-cycle stuff going at their places of employment?

30-07-2008, 23:54	#1
Dr. Z I'm going for a scuttle... Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,021	2nd hand servers... Alreet guys, I know all about eBay and servers, but this isn't for my personal use and so I need to be both a bit more discerning with spec and definitely price : performance as its not my money! Basically, the brief is that I need to buy as many servers as I can for £800 but they must all be capable of running in a highish load environment. Talking about encoding streams for bandwidths upwards of 200mbit constantly, handling various other bespoke software and general stuff like web and mail servers. I've arrived at a rough spec of a dual 3GHz Xeon 2U box with a couple of scsi drives of at least 36Gb with a reasonable raid controller and an absolute bare minimum of 2Gb RAM - these boxes will be running VMWare ESX. Anyone know of some end-of-cycle stuff going at their places of employment? __________________