Keith Watson wrote:
Hi Laurie,
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As someone with an eye on the commercial side of things, what's your take on these servers on a PCI card (so called blade servers)?
To be honest, I haven't looked at them at all yet. My current looking-at project is the Asus Terminator bare-bones: Scan sell them for 127 quid. They're composed of an Asus mobo with on-board 10/00 NIC, video, sound, and come with CD and floppy installed. The case flips open with 2 screws, and all it needs is CPU, memory and an HDD. Best of all, they are small, 7" x 11" x 12", and make a very nice system box (Athlon 1700+XP/256MB/40GB ATA-100) for about 350 quid. That's an ideal dns box, mailserver, whatever for next to no dosh, and makes a great desktop PC.
Tell me more about these blade servers please.
Cheers, Laurie.