January 12th, 2010

Entry Level Servers

Server class hardware is becoming more and more accessible to the small office / home office. The staple “Dell Power Edge” tower base server starts around $250 and nice outfitted around the $500 mark. Processor options in both the AMD and Intel lines are available in duel and quad core configurations with some able to support mainstream virtualization technologies maximizing your investment.

I recently purchased a Dell T105 Power Edge server for my home office. Roughly $350 after online deals.

Processor	Dual Core AMD® Athlon™ 4450B; 2.3GHz,2X512K Cache
Memory	4GB, DDR2, 800MHz, 2x2GB,Dual Ranked DIMMs
Hard Drives	Two 160GB 7.2K RPM SATA 3Gbps
Operating System	No Operating System
Optical Drive	16X SATA DVD Drive

Deals worth noting:

PowerEdge T110 with Intel Xeon 3430 – $399

PowerEdge T105 with Duel Core AMD Athlon 4405B – $267

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2 Responses to “Entry Level Servers”

1. REckel says:

   February 23, 2010 at 10:37 am

   Sweet deal -
   I did a Phenom X4 on an MSI M/B, 8GB PC-6400, 5 WD 330GB SATA II slapped into an old case with 400w P/S. (<$500). No CD/DVD; USB Thumb to boot to net installation.

   Installing openSuse 11.2 XEN for multi server development, testing, play…

   What sort of OS will you be installing?

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2. Bryan says:

   February 23, 2010 at 3:36 pm

   I actually installed VMware ESXi recently and am in the process of doing P2V conversions of a handful of Debian servers and a single Windows 2k8 server.

   My next step will be to complete the construction of an iSCSI SAN for central storage. Looking into openFiler and open-e as potential possibilities.

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