From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain met.ie)
Date: Tue 14 Aug 2001 - 11:01:14 IST
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:31:02AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 08:48:21PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Niall O Broin thought:
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 05:12:23PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > >
> > > > guarantees that it won't fail :-) Mightn't be a bad idea to have a spare
> > > > server too. As that's probably outside the budget,
> > >
> > > well he was talking about having the server be a multi-CPU, multi-GB
> > > thingy.. so i'd suggest the same budget would cover having 2 uni-CPU,
> > > 256 to 512MB machines instead.
> > >
> >
> > Hmm - I don't remember seeing a machine spec. though I'm sure I remember
> > seeing a figure of 1800 quid for the server. Won't get you much in the
> > multi-CPU, multi-GB field, but definitely enough to buy two 1GHz Athlons
> > with 512M RAM + 40GB IDE drives, given current prices on everything. Just
>
> IEP1600 for dual PIII 800MHz, 1Gb RAM, 2x 40Gb IDE
> IEP700 for switches, client NICs and cabling
IEP1600 will also get two:
Athlon 1GHz, 512MHz, 40Gb IDE
Conor
-- Conor Daly Met Eireann, Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9, Ireland Ph +353 1 8064276 Fax +353 1 8064275 ------------------------------------ 9:50am up 10:55, 9 users, load average: 0.03, 0.35, 0.36
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Thu 06 Feb 2003 - 13:11:36 GMT