On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:54:05PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >What about a Compaq Proliant 2500R on eBay for $300? > > max 1 GB ram, 1 PCI bus over 6 slots, dual Pentium Pro 166 MHz > > 4 bays + 2 1/2 height bays (for media) + CDROM and floppy > > A 2500R for $300? I hope that's $25 plus $275 shipping. > > Not a bad machine, although MP might not work. You can probably > overclock it to 233, but somehow I don't think that's what you're going for. >
Nice to know that its not a bad machine, but yest its $300. The auctions expired, but there was also a 5000 for $300, and now there's a 4500R for $249. Since you know these machines (and I've never touched seen one): servers seem to take hot-plug drives. Does this tie one into buying e.g. HP drives since they'll have the carrier, or can one get empty carriers and plunk in a suitable SCSI drive? Does this matter? If the drives and carriers are inseperable, then when HP decides to stop selling them, then no new drives can be had. However, if once one has the carriers, one can swap drives in them, then future upgrades are easier. Does anyone make a universal hot-plug carrier or do the styles keep changing to keep you going back to HP? Thanks, Doug.
