[tech] New userbox/fileserver

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Tue Aug 17 13:59:04 WST 2004


Hi all.

Looking at some specs and prices for a new userbox/fileserver, here're some
prices from AusPC Market (incl freight):

1 x Tyan Tiger K8W AMD Skt940 Dual Opteron board, AMD 8151, 4x DDR333 Reg,
5x PCI, GigaLAN, AGP8x, Firewire, SATA/RAID MB-TYS2875ANRF
$440.00

2 x AMD Opteron 242 1.6GHz 64-Bit CPU, 1mb L2 w/AMD fan/heatsink CP-AMOP242
$412.50

4 x Western Digital Caviar 200Gb Serial ATA drive, 8mb cache, 7200RPM 
HD-WE2000JD
$236.50
 - these in a RAID-1-0 configuration style configuration, so we have 400GB
   space total.

PC-3200 2048MB Corsair TwinX 184-pin DDR SDRAM (2x1024MB sticks) Registered ECC
400mhz w/aluminium heatspreader RA-DDTWINX2048RE3200
$1039.50

Total inc GST = $3250.50

Of course we'll need a case/powersupply/ATA boot disk etc, so add another ~$800
or so to that. So, if anyone's got comments on what they think we should be
getting, say so.

Matt


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