[ILUG] [OT] Cheap-ish 1U or 2U rackable PCs

[Paul Jakma]

Compaq proliant 1850R is worth looking at. 2U i think. You can fit 3
or 4 1" inch compaq drive trays in it. 

plus afaik it has that IRC == "integrated remote console" thingy
which might be very useful, eg stick a term server in the rack - wire
all servers serial ports up to it - and hey presto you can
telnet/dial in to your term server and remote boot your machines.

apparently something like 40% or more of 1850R's sold run linux...

(of course i do work for compaq... biased/etc..)

-paul
 
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Colm Buckley wrote:

  
  Hey folks -
  
  Yet another OT request, but this one is mildly interesting.  I'm looking
  into putting "lots of Linux boxes" in a rack, and I need a source of
  cheap low- to mid-range PCs (say Celeron 500s with 128MB) which come in
  a small (1U or 2U) rack format.  The higher-end stuff is covered by
  something like the Dell PE2450 (yummy, btw), but I also need a couple of
  low-end boxes like this to do firewalling/NATting duty.
  
  I got a couple of 1U boxes from Sight Systems in the UK last year, but
  I'm not amazingly happy with them.  ISTR seeing some Intel 2U boxes
  somewhere; anyone got further information?
  
           Colm
  
  

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