Aloha,
have noticed some auction sites selling these berand new
they are always goin gfor around 650 -750 bucks
specs are
Dell appserver model 100 - 750mhz pIII 256 megs 9 gig SCSI, no/OS

so for some of you who have experience with dell server boxes what are your thought for this range ??
thought of picking up a couple and installing my own OS on them ??
then colo em somewhere ??

figure they seem like good servers ya can boot into the bios etc... 1u space so colo spcae would be cheap

pick up another 256 megs a 2nd drive ya can have a good system for a shade over $1000

so anyfeedback ???
Mahalo

Please give me some url's as I have not seen these auctions :)

Aloha,


hmmmmmm then have people bid agianst me
ha
hahahah
hehehheheeh


OH OK no prob ;)

just having fun with ya
would rather see brudahs from here get em then others I do not know
well saw some on ebay
but most of em are here

http://www.ubid.com/cat/get_cat_page.asp?CatID=1002

they have em all the time
they had some pIII 600 that had 2 9 gig HD went for only $500 new

hmmm should have got em ??
oh well

they also have some wicked quad 550 XEON and stuff
have bought from ubid before
some probs some not
got a bad scsi drive once
so my adive only get stuff from ubid and make sure ya know waht you are getting read the wording all of it ;)=
some have OS no HD or ???
just a FYI

let us know if ya pick one up
I am waiting till I can get one for under $ 600
we shall see

Once something there sells, they'll sell another batch the next day. Not TOO much to worry about, unless people didn't decide to bid on a batch.

Yeah
just having fun ;)
they have been selling them for a few weeks now
been watching em
waiting for em to start selling the 120's
or ???

keep thinking sometime by some wicked quad XEON thing when I see em go for so cheap would be a cool toy to have for your little home server ???
proccess graphics or video files on would be nice

Well I got one for just over $600. $629 to be exact. I'll let you know if it was a good deal when it gets here but they says its still new and not refurbished.
http://216.33.72.165/Actn/Cls/5009586.asp

I will be adding another 256 of ram and iccreasing the drive to either 18 or 30GB. So for 900-1000 I got a system that would me that much in the first month or two by renting the same specs as a dedicated.

I saw how everyone was freaking out over a $500 gateway tower, I can't believe people didn't do the same over these since they cost alot less to co-locate. Oh well, I saved money :D

Aloha
cool did you get one of the 34 that was there ???

yeah that is what I am thinking allready in a 1u case
cool congrats keep us posted

Originally posted by Honu
Aloha,


hmmmmmm then have people bid agianst me
ha
hahahah
hehehheheeh


OH OK no prob ;)

just having fun with ya
would rather see brudahs from here get em then others I do not know
well saw some on ebay
but most of em are here

http://www.ubid.com/cat/get_cat_page.asp?CatID=1002

they have em all the time
they had some pIII 600 that had 2 9 gig HD went for only $500 new

hmmm should have got em ??
oh well

they also have some wicked quad 550 XEON and stuff
have bought from ubid before
some probs some not
got a bad scsi drive once
so my adive only get stuff from ubid and make sure ya know waht you are getting read the wording all of it ;)=
some have OS no HD or ???
just a FYI

let us know if ya pick one up
I am waiting till I can get one for under $ 600
we shall see

used Ubid to get his computer he got a good deal and the price was really low , he hasnt had a problem with the computer.

Good Luck :)

Originally posted by Honu
Aloha
cool did you get one of the 34 that was there ???

yeah that is what I am thinking allready in a 1u case
cool congrats keep us posted

No there was a 2hr auction that ended about an hour before the 35 count one with 3 servers. I got one of those. Same server as what was in the 35 though.

Aloha
well got my server today
got it for $609
$89 shipping living on Maui does have its drwabacks then I have to ship it to Seattle heheheh

going to play with it first and get it setup

anyway took some pictures of the inside if any body wants I will post em

man the box was bigger than I thought it would be ????

the drive is a Quantum atlas V 160
I am going to drop Micron memory in it
the 256 stick in my unit at least was a single 256meg stick thats kinda cool

OK just put some quick pics up
I can take more if anybody wants particulars

http://www.hpsale.com/pics/

Yes, if you have any pics, please post them :)

We ordered a couple and have got one in, great deal some issues are:

1. Rack rails dont fit standard racks
2. you have to take the front bezel off everytime you want to push any button :) :(
3. Video port is resessed into the back to it can be a pain to get to because of the lip above it exp. if your trying to plug it in in a small space from the front.

Other than that if seems to be a great deal.

I thought from the description on ubid that it didn't come with the rack mounts anyway so I was thinking I had to buy some anyway. Anyone know how much the rack mount kit costs, I looked on dells site but can't find them.

So which kind of 80pin scsi connector did it have? SCA or something else?

Originally posted by cbaker17
We ordered a couple and have got one in, great deal some issues are:

1. Rack rails dont fit standard racks
2. you have to take the front bezel off everytime you want to push any button :) :(
3. Video port is resessed into the back to it can be a pain to get to because of the lip above it exp. if your trying to plug it in in a small space from the front.

Other than that if seems to be a great deal.

how did they not fit ??

also what kind of rack was it going in ??

The rack mounts worked in other words it will screw into any rack just fine, but the sliding rails, which come for free, which you usually have to buy, dont fit standard racks. IE the sliding rails are the rails that enable you to slide the entire server out of the rack without unscrewing it from the rack

Aloha
so any ideas what they woud fit ??
I take it it really is not needed then (the sliding rails)
so if I send it off to a place soon I might as well not send the long box that contained the sliding rails ?? or will there be stuff they needed in there ???


how are they working so far then ?? do you have them going

also was curious I assume ya running linux/apache on em

did you do any of there bios updates or anything ??

Mahalos for answering

Originally posted by cbaker17
The rack mounts worked in other words it will screw into any rack just fine, but the sliding rails, which come for free, which you usually have to buy, dont fit standard racks. IE the sliding rails are the rails that enable you to slide the entire server out of the rack without unscrewing it from the rack

Sliding rails are nice if you have the money to spend on them. Unscrewing a server and pulling it out to do a simple thing like add memory is a pain. But usually sliding rails cost an extra ~$50. So if they're not included by default, I don't spend the extra money on 'em. They're nice, but not necessary.

They are over $100 from Dell, although I hear you can buy them from 3rd party. Don't know who though. Anybody?

Originally posted by Planet Z


Sliding rails are nice if you have the money to spend on them. Unscrewing a server and pulling it out to do a simple thing like add memory is a pain. But usually sliding rails cost an extra ~$50. So if they're not included by default, I don't spend the extra money on 'em. They're nice, but not necessary.

yeah they are included in the box

thought the slide rails were for the box kind
(whoops edited thsi had it backwards)
DOHHHH
anybody know this for sure ??

http://www.hpsale.com/pics/

Looks nice.

AFAIK, most places that do colo use single-rail racks. There isn't much point in using box racks unless you're hosting extra-big servers (extended rackmounts).

We have really long 1U servers on single rail racks with no problems.

Honu,

Did you ever figure out if the Dell control panel can be installed on them?

Aloha
not yet
hope to do it this weekend or maybe today later

will keep ya posted though
I also am going to install apache kit on it
upgrade the memory to 512 and put in a 18 gig drive
looks like a 50 pin HD so have to take it apart again to double check though
if I get it up I have 2 static IP's so might be able to give ya the one static ip to check it out see if I do that or do the win2k thing might make it a dev box for asp stuff and mirror it out to another new dell app120 with dual 1gighz pIII and a gig of ram to run asp stuff
so I would have one dev box and a production box that could take over if I had a failure on the main box long enough to get the other box up

also curious to see teh new version of Plesk

I guess the win2k version of dellapp server has no dns handling though which is strange cause I could have sworn it was in the interface demo

I would like to buy some of these servers but am in The Netherlands and they only ship within the US.

Any suggestions??

Ubid.com doesn't offer them anymore. I guess their inventory is empty now.

Shadowbreed, if you really want one, I was able to get another one, and willing to sell him and ship him to you.
But not at the Ubid price....PM me for more info.

Ubid now has IBM netfinity servers up for auction, but these are higher end systems and are prices two time higher on average.

I didn't mean exactly these servers just the servers they have in general, is there any way to get some sort of postal service that can forward them to The Netherlands?

Most server firms will ship to Europe, just be prepared to pay high shipping costs.

I know they will and i know the costs but what i really need is some kind of forwarding service to the netherlands.

Because i want to be able to buy stuff from company's like ubid that only ship within the US.

THe shipping from ubid is alraedy rediculous, its over 40.00 within the US for the slowest groud shipping.

True, but even with the higher shipping, the cost of the machines can justify it.

Absolutely, Dell servers are about 25% more expensive here in NL than in the US.

Aloha
to ship to Maui was $89
what bites is I got to mail it back to colocate it
hehehhe
wanted to play with it first though
whheeeeeee

yeah I watch ubid everyday they may come back with more ya never know ;)=
maybe dell 120 soon
that would be cool

OH to ad a note the netfinity wher always there they are in a dif category the dell app servers were in Internet/Specialty are not enterprise (doesn't really matter but keep your eyes on the Internet/Specialty catetgory for the dells ???