22-10-2014, 12:10 PM
Yeah, for example, those Dell CS24s aren't actually Dell made, just branded - they're made by a company called "DCS" who combined with a few other OEMs to get real cheap servers out... They were supposed to be the CHEAPEST way to get reasonably powerful servers into racks with the minimum amount of "crap"... They're Dell's "Cloud" server really, as in, very basic, simple, poor support etc - were used for virtualisation, HPC and VPS servers... Not much better than cheapy Supermicro stuff really - they're not akin to Dell's R series anyway.
FYI it will be noisy as f*ck, just trust me, soon as it comes under any load, it's going to ramp up and will be relatively power hungry...
They have absolutely NO graphics performance whatsoever, probably using an 8mb ATI rage or something, also in a 1u case, they've got not much in the way of storage, but if you want something that's pretty hefty in terms of compute power, they're a good option for relatively little money... Though I'd still say you're better off getting something like a HP Microserver - way more efficient and probably more than oomphy enough for what you want to do!
Mind you, that CS24 would shit over most £120 stuff you can buy new, but it's a cheap, compute powerful machine.. TBF Don't diss DDR2 memory too much - the speed means nothing, yes it runs faster, but there's more latency involved and 99% of the time, unless you have a seriously good CPU, you're limited by the memory controller anyway!
With a decent Linux distro on, be a nice machine... If you can deal with the noise.
FYI it will be noisy as f*ck, just trust me, soon as it comes under any load, it's going to ramp up and will be relatively power hungry...
They have absolutely NO graphics performance whatsoever, probably using an 8mb ATI rage or something, also in a 1u case, they've got not much in the way of storage, but if you want something that's pretty hefty in terms of compute power, they're a good option for relatively little money... Though I'd still say you're better off getting something like a HP Microserver - way more efficient and probably more than oomphy enough for what you want to do!
Mind you, that CS24 would shit over most £120 stuff you can buy new, but it's a cheap, compute powerful machine.. TBF Don't diss DDR2 memory too much - the speed means nothing, yes it runs faster, but there's more latency involved and 99% of the time, unless you have a seriously good CPU, you're limited by the memory controller anyway!
With a decent Linux distro on, be a nice machine... If you can deal with the noise.
