I think it's time for new servers

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Originally Posted by bigdpm

Once you find your perfect spec and realise your puny budget wont stretch then (presuming you still like Dells) have a look at bananacomputers.com. They sell factory refurbished Dells for Dell. All their stuff comes with a 3 or 4 year Dell manufacturers warranty (4 hour response) and the prices are unbelivable (for a school techie anyway) how about a 2950, all the usual trimmings, 16gb memory, 4 73gb sas drives ... under £3k!
Check it out for yoursel

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Haha! They're on the Isle of Man! Small world (I'm from there). They'd better not let the Lieutenant Governor see that they use 'UK' in their name!

Build it yourself :P

we (with out VERY limited budget)

got a 2 opteron , 4gbs ECC Buffered RAM, H/w RAID 5 controller /w 4 146gb scsi. 2 dvd rewriters, lovely case, £200 worth of hp hardware network card, aswell as the 2 1gbps onboard broadcoms. 600Wpsu etc... £1200 (about a year and a half ago)

were building another one this year, with just one processor, 2gb RAM, with 2tb of storage, with a RAID 5 HW controller. £200 H/W based network card etc. basically just as a fast storage area, £800 delivered :)

Just how we do things here, not enough money for any other options....

the rackmounted cases are too much ALONE without any hardware...

We have a dell poweredge which the first server we built up is actually higher spec.. but the poweredge cost £5k, 5 x more for less ram less processor less hdd... infact we had to add another drive so it cost us more then that!!!