Buying server for practice

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i am soon starting a training course for network support and i am thinking of buying a used server to play about on and hopefully learn something before the course, also i am sure it will be usefull in the future. looking on ebay there are two that i am interested in, one is a compaq proliant ml370 server with a pentium 3 666 mhz cpu 256 meg memory and one is a compaq Proliant 800 Server which has a pentium 2 450 mhz cpu 392 meg memory. would the proliant 800 be noticibly slower than the ml370? is there any other reason to pick one rather than the other. item numbers are 160000670588 and 180000697492

Paul.

 

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If its only for playing with why not use a PC?

 

Hi Paul,

It depends if you want to *get familiar* with the hardware as well as the Server OS. Personally, just bought 2 tower systems;

1.7 ghz
512 RAM
20 Gb HD

and they run 2003 Server perfectly with some trimmings too.

 

normal PC's (1ghz (maybe 900mhz) 256mb) that will make server 2003 run perfectly. In fact im running server on about 200mb at times (vmware).

 

You might want to look into putting the money towards a better PC by beefing up your RAM and getting VMWare. Then you can have as many servers as you like.

 

Thanks for the advice, as i am on a limited budget i thought if i could get one of these servers i could also as boyce says get used to the hardware too, also i have never used scsi devices so there is that aspect aswell. i have put a bid in for one of them and will see what happens. if not i shall look into getting a normal base unit. is server 2003 available as a demo version? as the next step will be getting some software for it.

Paul.

 

You can sign up with a Microsoft passport ID and download an 180 day evaluation copy of Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/default.mspx

 

Paul,

Depending on your Cert/Career path you might want to invest in an Actionpack from MS. I bought one to help me on my MCSE path....

 

you got a linky for this boyce im interested too...

 

Oh mate you will *love* the Action Pack, it is pricy but very good value for money IMHO

 

£199 Pricey?

We run an office/server off it so I think its a steal.

 

zimbo, first you need to become a registered partner. Then you log into the partner.microsoft.com site and somewhere on the page there will be a link explaining how to get it. the only requirements as far as I know are that you have at least one mcp and you sign 'your IT company' up as a MS partner.

 

It seems a lot more expensive here because of the exchange rate and the much lower salaries