From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 25 12:12:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3F137B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59FE4442A4 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:06:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 80526 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Feb 2003 20:04:28 -0000 To: Randy Bush Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dell poweredge 1600sc References: From: Chris Shenton Date: 25 Feb 2003 15:04:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87r89w160j.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Randy Bush writes: > anyone run freebsd on this puppy? > > http://www.bensbargains.net/ktalk/1045846678,54718,.shtml I'm not using the Dell PowerEdge 1600sc ($549), but got a similar deal directly from Dell a few months back: PowerEdge 600Sc with 1.8GHz CPU, 256MB RAM, 2x20GB IDE, amr hardware 4-channel IDE RAID, gig ether, keybd, mouse, and no Microsoft tax. About $700 delivered. (DELL sells the RAID card alone for $300) Works like a champ. I replaced the 20GB drives with 4x120GB WD1200JB drives in a RAID-5 config and it boots quite happily. Seems like a nice box, good price. Dell's web site seemed to have new "specials" every week: sometimes free RAM, sometimes free second disk, sometimes free RAID controller (then you have to pay their price for a second disk when you order). But they do seem like rather decent prices and well-built HW. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message