Musings on hardware prices

[Alvin Oga]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Michael T. Halligan wrote:

> >$200	generic 2U rackmount case
> >$250	generic dual-xeon mb
> >$300	2x Xeon-2G	( Xeon-2.8 @ $250 )
> >$280	2GB DDR ecc
> >$600	seagate 300GB sata 
> >$100	misc fanc
> >-----
> >$1730  ( cheaper for them to buy hw and rent the fractional ds-3 ?? )
> >	- add additional custom widget costs as needed
> >  
> >
> 
> Ahh, typos and unclear statements on my part.   The processors are 
> actually Dual Xeon 3ghz procs with 2mb cache.
> 
> The $1200 per month is our base cost for leasing all 10 servers from 
> (cough) dell, with a $1 buyout,

that's not too bad costwise, but its dell, and if something goes wrong,
its cheaper/faster to get a new box than it is to get dell warranty to
replace the bad part ... 

> including rack-space, power, and 
> "extras" (fractional
> switch, console server, remote PDU, etc costs).

if they include that with the costs ... thats nice but i guess it'd depend
on which colo where its located

hard to beat dell's pricing ... ( a semi-monopoly w/ the big 3 boyz )

> I'm not so sure about that. 5 years ago I purchased 200 valinux servers, 
> really haggling on the price.

they expensive for its time .. now, every tom-dick-n-harry-pc-shop has 
the same parts for cheaper than their cousins

c ya
alvin