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Smokey82
07-12-2004, 11:49 PM
What are some good rack servers? I am looking for a dual amd 64, dual 60gb wd hard drives and 1 gig memory. How much do you think im looking for these specs?

I have no idea what to expect in terms of prices. :idea:

HiVelocity
07-13-2004, 12:31 AM
The majority of my colocated customers choose to buy Dell Rack mount servers. Probably over half of these colocated Rack mount customers use Dell servers which seem to work quite well for them. You can also buy hardware and build your own server depending on costs. But you should find that Dell offers some reasonable pricing.

Shop around a little and find a few quotes for the different options. You should find what you need.

Good Luck!

Smokey82
07-13-2004, 05:01 PM
Thank you for the suggestion. Dell has been good to me in terms of tower workstations and laptops maybe I should check out their servers as well.

cwl@apaqdigital
07-13-2004, 07:07 PM
well, dell doesn't do dual Opteron servers. at least, not yet...

for name brand, IBM/HP/Sun do offer Dual Opteron based rack-mount's.

Mfjp
07-13-2004, 08:58 PM
Penguin Computing have excellent Opterons machine.

Defcon|Rich
07-13-2004, 09:30 PM
Check out the HP DL series Opterons. Great machines and decent prices.

talkster5
07-14-2004, 02:01 AM
Dell offer reasonable pricing???? Last time i checked it was something like 1600 from dell when i could build a much better system myself for around 1000

mgphoto
07-14-2004, 10:18 PM
You may want to look at http://apaqdigital.com who has posted above.

We can tell you he builds some great servers at a very good price.

djdxm
07-14-2004, 11:10 PM
HP make a nice dual opteron server. Also Sun makes a nice Dual opteron also.

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/

Jay

omaha.stylee
07-15-2004, 03:38 AM
I've had AWESOME luck with my rack of 40 1u HP's, I would recommend HP in a heartbeat.