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

[Huck]

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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