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

[Joseph Bishay]

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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