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Posted: **Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:52 pm**

I'm looking for 2U rack servers (e.g. Dell 2650) with at least 2 x 2.8 Ghz. Anyone has any good pointers where these servers can be puchased cheap .....

Posted: **Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:36 pm**

If its for home, just go for 4u and build your own (you can use standard hardware), otherwise marktplaats.nl or similar. Unless you want a service where they replace your disks for you too

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:13 pm**

It is for home, and I don't want to built anything myself ... I'll keep an eye on the usual places ...

Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:31 pm**

The good guys of http://www.nowthatsit.nl have many 1U and 2U servers at reasonable prices. The PowerEdge for example:
http://www.nowthatsit.nl/categorie.asp?categorie_id=272
Prices are including VAT and you will get a VAT invoice so you can deduct it if used for your company.

Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:13 pm**

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Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:20 pm**

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by MindBender
 The good guys of http://www.nowthatsit.nl have many 1U and 2U servers at reasonable prices. The PowerEdge for example:
http://www.nowthatsit.nl/categorie.asp?categorie_id=272
Prices are including VAT and you will get a VAT invoice so you can deduct it if used for your company.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Looks good ... thanks !!

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:18 pm**

Did anybody buy/own one of these Dell PowerEdge 1U servers? Can anybody give an indication of how much power they consume typically?

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:40 pm**

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by MindBender
 Did anybody buy/own one of these Dell PowerEdge 1U servers? Can anybody give an indication of how much power they consume typically?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I've got 3 Dell 1425 PowerEdge 1U servers (dual Xeon), and what I remember is a LOT! If you really need to know I can have a look at it sometime next week (I'll be at the colo place)

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Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:50 pm**

They come with 450w power supply.. dont forget the noise they generate too...

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:24 pm**

I once bought a Poweredge 1750 for 300 on ebay, it made so much noise I could hear it in my bedroom upstairs while the server was in the cellar with all doors closed. (Note: this was with only 1 PSU plugged in and fans spinning up to 10000RPM, when I plugged the second PSU the noise dropped a bit with fans at 6000RPM but still noisy!) The newer 1950's we have at work make much less noise.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:26 pm**

Hm, that sounds like a good server; For in the garden shed, that is. Do you have any idea on how much power it consumes?
A 450Watt power supply means it's likely not to use much more than 200Watt, but that's already a lot for a computer. My dual PIII Xeon 550MHz with 1GB of registered ECC memory and dual redundant power supply does about 65Watt.
The laptop that's recently replaced it does about 23Watt, but it works a bit sluggish. So perhaps the power saving strategy wasn't such a good one after all so I'm rethinking my options.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:33 pm**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation is a nice place to give an indication about certain usage.

// Erik (binkey.nl)