[LUNI] In search of a server

[Samir Faci]

I second TigerDirect.  I've used 'em in the past and never had any
problems with them (yet).  As far as the tax, I presume you were
refering to the windows lisc fee, not the sales tax.

Plus, it's nice that I can take a drive to their warehouse and pick up
what I want and see what I'm buying first hand.

I was gonna sugest the cod show, but it seems they're not doin too
well (http://gmcs.ciadvt.com/ ) unless I hit the wrong website.

Also, fatwallet.com, a friend of mine uses it religiously to find
bargains and deals.

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Samir

On 11/12/06, Donald Benesch <dabenesch at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Larry,
> Check with TigerDirect, I see that they have bare bones systems and parts on the cheap side. They are in Naperville however, and do collect tax.
> Don
>
> Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote: My home server is dying.  Specifically, the hard drive is developing bad
> sectors, always in my mail archive (where else?), and I'm fairly sure the
> rest of the system is too old to even cope with a new, large hard drive.  So
> I am now in the market on short notice for a new home server.
>
> "Home server" in this case means something that handles email, Jabber, DNS,
> minor web stuff, etc. for a user base of generally no more than, uh, 2. :-)
> The only really strenuous thing it ever does handle a 2 GB mail archive over
> IMAP.  Other than that, it's really just a glorified file server.
>
> Does anyone have a favorite source for such a contraption for a low price?
> I'm open to building my own (I do that all the time), or buying pre-made, or
> a decent gently-used box.  I don't know if I want to bother with RAID or not,
> as I'd be interested more in reliability than in performance increases.
> Brands aren't really important, although reliability and expandability of the
> case is.  Quiet is, since it will be sitting in my living room.  I'm thinking
> 1 GHz+, 512 MB RAM, and 200+ GB storage, and trying to keep the cost in the
> $300-$400 range if I can.  No Windows Tax if I can avoid it.
>
> Any recommendations for where to find such a system, or parts for it, or
> someone with such a system they want to offload to a good home? :-)  Is the
> price range I'm looking for too low for this task?
>
> TIA and such.
>
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