Our file server just got an upgrade....
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That's what I figured, but I thought I'd ask anyway. We do know of one supplier selling 4GB Q6600 (probably good enough for this) machines in SFF for £300 or so (no OS), and I suspect that's probably as good as we're going to get. FWIW we need portable machines for this, so SFF of some form is the way to go.
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I don't know how they compare on price but have you looked at a Mac Mini?
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I don't know how they compare on price but have you looked at a Mac Mini?
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No..last I heard they weren't quad, but then I've not checked. We'd want units that we could swap 7200rpm 3.5" drives in and out of, FWIW....not sure if you can do that on a mini.
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That's what I figured, but I thought I'd ask anyway. We do know of one supplier selling 4GB Q6600 (probably good enough for this) machines in SFF for £300 or so (no OS), and I suspect that's probably as good as we're going to get. FWIW we need portable machines for this, so SFF of some form is the way to go.
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Nice, I knew you could DIY a $4-500 quad, but didn't realize anyone was selling them around that price.
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No..last I heard they weren't quad, but then I've not checked. We'd want units that we could swap 7200rpm 3.5" drives in and out of, FWIW....not sure if you can do that on a mini.
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IIRC it's a 2.5" drive. A friend of mine has one and complained it was a nightmare to open up and change anything (and odds are his change was a bigger HD).
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IIRC it's a 2.5" drive. A friend of mine has one and complained it was a nightmare to open up and change anything (and odds are his change was a bigger HD).
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
That's what I thought...we use one in our church for music during services (I'm the standby mixing desk person when our real organist is away) and given the miniscule size of the thing I'd be amazed if you could easily upgrade anything but the mouse and keyboard. :rolleyes:
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That's what I thought...we use one in our church for music during services (I'm the standby mixing desk person when our real organist is away) and given the miniscule size of the thing I'd be amazed if you could easily upgrade anything but the mouse and keyboard. :rolleyes:
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actually now that I think about it it's a laptop CPU too, so quadding it while possible would be disgustingly expensive.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Nice, I knew you could DIY a $4-500 quad, but didn't realize anyone was selling them around that price.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
It's an Ebay seller, so I've no idea of their providence (that's the catch). Integrated graphics and no OS, but otherwise not at all bad.
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...but I didn't realise that formatting three 1.5TB NTFS disks would take quite that long. :doh: (On the plus side, the three 500GB disks which came out are now free for dev machine use. :) ) In the same order we received a pair of 320GB Buffalo Ministation drives for "mobile overspill and general backup stuff" use for something like £47 each. I still think that it's pretty damn amazing that you can get 320GB drives in a 2.5" form factor (I've actually also seen 500s, but the 320s were at the sweet spot) - never mind at that price. Incredible, really. :cool: Next up we're on the hunt for a pair of affordable quad core SFF machines to use as mobile grid computing demonstrators (we've a couple of conferences coming up in the spring they'd be ideal for). Shuttle is still naffly expensive for a decent spec, so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears. :)
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Hi Anna: :rose: Noticed you were looking for a decent shuttle, http://shopsws.com/Pre_Built_Systems.htm[^] Although these guys are in the US, the freight is prob reasonable. I buy all my gear from these folks and they stand behind what they sell. Reasonable prices as well. Best of Luck rcb ;)
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Hi Anna: :rose: Noticed you were looking for a decent shuttle, http://shopsws.com/Pre_Built_Systems.htm[^] Although these guys are in the US, the freight is prob reasonable. I buy all my gear from these folks and they stand behind what they sell. Reasonable prices as well. Best of Luck rcb ;)
Thanks for the link Craig. Unfortunately it looks like those are all single or dual core systems...we're specifically looking for quad systems so we can build a mobile IncrediBuild grid with as few machines as possible. The reference machine we've found is an SFF 2.4GHz Q6600 quad box with 4GB RAM...they's going for just under £300 from a UK company. If we can match that with a recent Shuttle system, all the better...but it looks like that is a bit of a long shot.
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Hi Anna: :rose: Noticed you were looking for a decent shuttle, http://shopsws.com/Pre_Built_Systems.htm[^] Although these guys are in the US, the freight is prob reasonable. I buy all my gear from these folks and they stand behind what they sell. Reasonable prices as well. Best of Luck rcb ;)
Are the systems listed there the current list, it looks like everything there's at least a year old, much more than that for the p4 boxen.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Are the systems listed there the current list, it looks like everything there's at least a year old, much more than that for the p4 boxen.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Are the systems listed there the current list, it looks like everything there's at least a year old, much more than that for the p4 boxen.
Dan Greetings :) Sorry my response was tardy but I was watching Obama's first news conf. Just noticed that myself, I am going to go to their store tomorrow, (I need another hdd), I will query them on that. However I think their price list page is current (at least the date tag is) :confused: http://shopsws.com/current_pricing.asp[^] regards; rcb
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dan neely wrote:
Are the systems listed there the current list, it looks like everything there's at least a year old, much more than that for the p4 boxen.
Dan Greetings :) Sorry my response was tardy but I was watching Obama's first news conf. Just noticed that myself, I am going to go to their store tomorrow, (I need another hdd), I will query them on that. However I think their price list page is current (at least the date tag is) :confused: http://shopsws.com/current_pricing.asp[^] regards; rcb