[K12OSN] Would you purchase this server for $150?

[Huck]

15 TC's in the library for class research and word processing...the rest 
were in 3-packs in each classroom...
also 22 windows xp boxes and 15 macs in 2 separate labs using same 
server for filesharing/authentication...

the NIC bonding and utilization of vlans is what made it possible the 
only bottle-necks I had were from then network saturation...
someone a LONG time ago wrote up some 'usage' calculations of how much 
bandwidth a typical thin client soaked up..

--Huck

Joseph Bishay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.  This is good to hear that you were able to
> run 40 machines off the server.  May I ask what sort of activity was
> being done on the thin clients to get an idea of the load?
> 
> Also, any other feedback about this server?  It is an online
> classified ad so it's not going to last long so I need to decide
> quickly!
> 
> Thanks,
> Joseph
> 
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote:
>> for $150 it seems like a great deal I ran 40 TCs on a similar machine but
>> home-brew'd and 4 GB of RAM(I'd suggest maxing out the RAM asap) and do some
>> NIC-bonding(which might be where current server is bottle-necking as
>> well)...
>>
>> --Huck's 2 cents.
>>
>> Joseph Bishay wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I hope everyone is doing well?
>>>
>>> I have an opportunity to purchase an HP Proliant DL360 G3 for $150.
>>> The specifications are:
>>>
>>> 2x2.8GHz Pentium 4 Hyperthreading Xeon processors
>>> 2GB ECC RAM
>>> Battery-backed hardware RAID
>>> 2x76GB 10k SCSI HDDs
>>>
>>> The full technical specs are here:
>>>
>>> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00409027&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=316558&prodTypeId=15351
>>>
>>> Our current setup is 15 clients but going to grow to 20 within a few
>>> weeks.  Our current server is running K12Linux (based on Fedora 10) on
>>> a Pentium 4 (2.4 Ghz) with 3 GB RAM and 2x37 GB SCSI drives.
>>>
>>> What do you think? Would it provide a serious performance boost? Our
>>> server now is OK but you can feel at times it's slow with the 15
>>> clients when they're all going.
>>>
>>> Joseph
>>>
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