David Evans wrote:
> For anyone looking for a cheap home ZFS server...
>
> Dell is having a sale on their PowerEdge SC440 for $199 (regular $598)
> through 11/12/2008.
>
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_sc440?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
>
> Its got Dual Core Intel® Pentium®E2180, 2.0GHz, 1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB
> and you can upgrade the memory (ECC too) to 2gb for 19$ bucks.
>
> @$199, I just ordered 2.
>
> dce
>
I don't think the Pentium E2180 has the lanes to use ECC RAM. I'm also
not confident the system board for this machine would make use of ECC
memory either, which is not good from a ZFS perspective. How many SATA
plugs are there on the MB in this guy?
Jon
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