2U Rackmount Server

asakura797 · 21 Mar 2010 at 14:14

I'm looking to buy a server just to mess about with. I found a rackable server that looks pretty good ebay. I have heard in the past though that these make a lot of noise and arent always great. Can anyone advise on it? Thanks

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....082339&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_3799wt_939

K.C. Leblanc · 21 Mar 2010 at 19:25

You realise you can run server operating systems on a standard desktop. It might be easier just to try something Virtualbox or VMWare player.

J.B · 21 Mar 2010 at 19:27

most rack mount kit will be quite noisey because it is designed to sit in a comms room. Is there any reason you were going for rack kit in particular?

What are you planning to do, most things work pretty well virtulised

King Arthur · 21 Mar 2010 at 19:29

moving to Servers and Enterprise Solutions where you will get much better responses

Phil

King Arthur · 21 Mar 2010 at 19:33

That ebay link server comes with no memory or HDD.

i would personally start with a Virtual Server. Look up VMWare Server.

Servers are great fun, but noisey and need specialist parts and operating systems.

Rackable are good systems but HP and Dell are the two main manufacturers in the server market i feel.

Phil

unp|dissy · 22 Mar 2010 at 09:07

I have multiple physical servers at home, running VM's. Most 1u server built myself but funnily enough i have the EXACT same server as the one you've posted.

For the price it's a powerful little thing but as it's rackmount it's very noisy. If you can handle the noiose the dual opertron's are decent processors and if your install a linux distro works quite nicely.

LordSplodge · 22 Mar 2010 at 16:04

Old single core AMD and DDR1. Forget it. I love the 4.8Ghz quote!

bigredshark · 22 Mar 2010 at 16:26

I dunno, £27 is a bit of a bargain, you could pay that per month for a VPS and it'd be a fair bit slower. Depends what you want it for, it's no use for virtualisation really though so not such a great home lab box...