Dell £99 Server offer

[Geoff]

They are at it again!

 

The Dell Online Store: Build Your System

[Domino]

Just had my one of these bad-boys delivered!

[speckytecky]

Just wondering, what are you guys adding to the server and what will it be used for?

[dhicks]

Just wondering, what are you guys adding to the server and what will it be used for?

 

We have three of those, bought last month. The original intention was to use them as interchangeable Internet gateway / filtering machines for our ADSL connection, so we put an extra network card in each. However, realising they're the best specified servers we have, we've now put some more harddrives in them and are using them as virtual machine servers to run pretty much everything. We tend towards the cheap end of things here.

 

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David Hicks

[zag]

Great deal, and actually pretty well specified

[dgsmith]

A Pentium Dual-Core CPU is hardly a server processor (I wouldn't even spec that low for a standard workstation!) I suppose when the delivery cost is factored in (which obviously isn't as much as they claim), it doesn't really work out to be much of a bargain :/

 

PDC 1.8Ghz, 512MB, 160GB HDD and 1yr warranty for £99 + £50 (delivery probably only costs £10), is around £140, which is the same price for a workstation of that spec - shout me down I am seeing this wrongly!

[Bromcom_John]

Actually, according to the DELL site the delivery is free on this offer.

Not inc. Vat though, so the actual price is about £113

[dgsmith]

Actually, according to the DELL site the delivery is free on this offer.

Not inc. Vat though, so the actual price is about £113

 

Free shipping states until April 25th.. so after that it will be back to £50 again (it's a ploy to reel you in!)

[tech_guy]

Blimey, I'm ordering one for home right now! A box to shuffle all my crap around at home for 113 isn't bad at all. Edited April 23, 2008 by tech_guy

[AJT1]

Can you order them for home?

[tech_guy]

Can you order them for home?

 

I run a little sole trader business from home so I'll be buying through that.

[AJT1]

makes sense :-)

[CyberNerd]

A Pentium Dual-Core CPU is hardly a server processor (I wouldn't even spec that low for a standard workstation!)

 

Fine for a print server, file server, Active Directory, or even for a cluster.

 

hmm, how much is a fibre channel PCI card ?

[dgsmith]

Fine for a print server, file server, Active Directory, or even for a cluster.

 

hmm, how much is a fibre channel PCI card ?

 

I'd much rather spend the same amount of money (once the delivery goes back to £50) for a ~£150 inc VAT server that is a better spec, comes with warranty lasting 3x longer and be futureproofed for the next couple of years at least. A Pentium Dual-Core is a budget workstation processor - seems mad that it can be passed off as a server one! Even a ProLiant server at an extra £70 or so such as this seems more financial sense to me!

 

To me, you can build a machine from parts the same as the Dell spec without costing you any more - I just don't see why there is all the hype!

[tech_guy]

Gone for 4GB Ram, 250GB HDD and the Xeon CPU - a tidy machine for what I need it for. Price & spec similar to what other manus are offering and I've saved the time I would have spent ordering the parts and building one myself so I'm a happy bunny now.

 

Only problem is sneaking it in past 'er indoors when it arrives.....

 

:-)

[TornUp]

to be fair though, there not spec'ed anything majorly more then a standard workstation.. there not even in a majorly large case.. and 512mb is less then what there supplying desktops at..

 

and if its not running anything major. you can get a workstation with a smaller footprint that will run the same..

 

thinking about it though, if you get it at standard spec.. it does work out quite cheap.. but only if you have a use for a system with 512 ram..

 

 

^^reading back, my view has changed from one extream to the other..lol