Cheap server for studying

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Already sold out at Insight, Microdirect have them instock
HP ML110 G5, £197 INC Vat + P&P

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/40288

Dual core Xeon, 250GB, 1GB ram, 1yr warranty

Upgrade the ram to 8GB, ESXi on a USB stick and you have a good study box

8GB ECC is around £90 on Crucial, but it will run with standard PC6400 DDR2 ram

 

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Thanks i will look into that!

Dell had a special offer last year for £90 servers, Nick from Itidiots brought three or four for use with Hyper-V, however, i haven't seen the offer repeated even though i still have a business account with them.

I agree for lab purposes you don't need ECC


I have several AMD 64 HP severs from several years ago they are good for labs, but i need replacements for ESX and/or hyper-v

 

I can still get the base spec servers from Dell at £90 through work, but to be honest these HP's are a better spec and pretty much work out of the box, also having an onboard USB socket on the mobo for a USB stick, install ESXi to it and job done.

I would buy one if I had the funds, but I've just stuck 8GB im my own PC to use for studying instead.

 

Looks like Microdirect are out of stock now

 

Whats the differnce between ML110 G5 and ML115 G5?

 

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lol I ment spec wise, I think it may just be processors but not sure.

Having looked around it looks like the price of the HP servers have more or less doubled in the last 6 months, looks like I'll have to hold out and pick some up if prices drop.

Would I be missing out on much by using a core2 duo machine and running vmware that way?