Bargain Servers

cmoyer posted this at 21:40 — 21st December 2008.

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Joined: Jun 2008

I have stumbled upon a few "bargain buys" among servers and am wondering which would be the best deal.

They are all rack mountable

Server number 1

Rackable Systems
Refurbished
Dual Opteron 2ghz
120GB hdd
4GB Ram
1u half depth
$139.99USD
Url: Here (geeks.com)

Server number 2 (ebay)

Rackable Systems
Dual Xeon 2.8ghz
2x 40GB hdd
4GB Ram
1u
$170USD
Url: Here (ebay)

Server number 3 (also ebay)

IBM
P4 3ghz
No hdd (I have a few laying around)
2GB Ram
Cd-rom
1u
$129.95USD
Url: Here (ebay)

Seeing as I don't know much about values on the parts, which one is the best buy? (My gut is telling me #1) Or if you find a better bargain suggest please.

I can do a network install for #1 or #2 but it is more convenient to do a cd install.

Thanks in advance

knorr posted this at 16:34 — 14th January 2009.

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Joined: Sep 2006

Why is it so expensive?

cmoyer posted this at 21:49 — 17th January 2009.

He has: 131 posts

Joined: Jun 2008

Sorry, this was posted a while ago and all of the servers that I listed have been sold out or time ended on ebay. So if one of the links still works than it is linked to a different product by now.