Home built or poweredge?

panomama

panomama

panomama

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Hello all,
My old server has just died and needs replacing.
I am torn between creating my own server (specs below) or buying 2 Dell 1950's with Hard drives.

I will be using the servers for XenServer or ESXi to run VMs doing the following:
Minecraft server hosting
MySql
IIS
DNS
WDS
RemoteAPP + Remote Desktop (NIC + VM to its self)
Backups
Music + Film streaming
And other things that i've forgotten

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The home built server I have specced here:

CPU: AMD CPU FX Series 8120 Black Edition 8 Core Processor Bulldozer 3.1GHz £130
Mobo: Asus M5A97 AMD 970 AM3+ Motherboard £70
RAM: Corsair Memory Vengeance LP Blue 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz x2 £80
OS-SSD, for XenServer: OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD - Solid State Drive £50
HD, One for VMs, One for storage, One for backup(have): Seagate 1TB SATA 3 Performance Hard Drive x2 £120
Graphics: XFX Silently Cooled HD 6450 Low Profile AMD Radeon Graphics Card - 1GB £30
Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer A30 CPU Cooler £30
Network Card: Intel Gigabit PRO 1000CT x2 £50
PSU: Have (550w)
Case: Have
Fans Have

Total cost: £560


Would it be better to buy the poweredges for half the price of building a new server.

And does anyone know average power usage for cisco gigabit switches, routers and Dell poweredge 1950s?

Thanks!
 
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not sure about the 1950 as it doesn't seem to want to tell me what power it is drawing, however my 2950 draws around 350 watts when under load and about 200 when idle.

I would assume the 1950 uses less, it is also much quieter.

edit: If you get the 1950's make sure they are Gen III
 
hellarda said:
not sure about the 1950 as it doesn't seem to want to tell me what power it is drawing, however my 2950 draws around 350 watts when under load and about 200 when idle.

I would assume the 1950 uses less, it is also much quieter.

edit: If you get the 1950's make sure they are Gen III
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I'm looking at the: Dell 1950 Twin Dual Core Xeon 2.66Ghz 8GB RAM 1U SATA Quad PowerEdge Server

I think their Gen 3?
 
panomama said:
I'm looking at the: Dell 1950 Twin Dual Core Xeon 2.66Ghz 8GB RAM 1U SATA Quad PowerEdge Server

I think their Gen 3?
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pretty sure thats not gen 3, I think the 3's have perc 6/i's instead of 5s and take 52xx dual core and 54xx quadcore xeons, that one has a 5150.

EDIT: have a look at Dell Poweredge 1950 Generation III Server 64 Bit Quad Core 2.33GHz
 
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hellarda said:
pretty sure thats not gen 3, I think the 3's have perc 6/i's instead of 5s and take 52xx dual core and 54xx quadcore xeons, that one has a 5150.

EDIT: have a look at Dell Poweredge 1950 Generation III Server 64 Bit Quad Core 2.33GHz
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Their £500 each on ebay
Too expensive for me.
 
Would Sata 3 HD's such as 500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5ms, NCQ work in a 1950 Gen 2?
 
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Ebay is not allowed. Hellarda is naughty.

Personally I wouldn't use the 1950s. We have a handful of 1950 III's running a bunch of data analysis software, and I would not want them in my home. They are ridiculously loud under load and alone they are sufficient to heat a small house*. They will eat your electricity bill and leave nothing but tears and regret behind.

Build your own server or get something else from Dell's refurb shop thing... (Not sure if that's a competitor!?)

*Maybe a large one too.
 
I wouldn't bother with the 1950's as yamaha above said, they are deafening loud and cost a fortune in electricity - they also use the old 3.5" drives, these are on there way out now - 2.5" is in.

I have a decent kitted out HP DL360 G5 with 2 x L5420 2.5Ghz Quad Core Xeons, 8GB RAM and 2.5" SAS drives with twin PSU, its loud and drinks electricity so it doesn't get used as much as I would like it too - it also runs quite hot due to the fact that I don't have the correct air conditioned climate to run it in!

Personally I'd go for a desktop solution, just by the parts from here and built it yourself.
 
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