On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 08:38 +0100, Chris G wrote:
£105 for a machine with 1Gb memory, 160Gb hard disk, gigabit ethernet and space for expansion seems pretty good to me.
Yes, as a company (and HP reseller) we have been selling these whenever we can get stock. The are a great little entry level server even at thrice the price. Also they have a pci-e x16 slot and are pretty quiet runners so can easily become a nice little midrange workstation.
They do however (or at least the samples I have seen) have the AMD Opteron dual core with the timing bug. I think this is probably why HP are clearing them in preparation of a G2 model or similar. It's not a major problem however as recent kernels detect and work around it and there is a patch for Windows from AMD. It may now even be fixable in firmware. Not sure how it manifests itself on Linux without the kernel detection, On Windows without the patch one of the symptoms is intermittent negative ping times.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc...
Oh and currently they are pretty much perpetually out of stock anywhere selling them at this price :)