Multiple Dell PowerEdge 1850s and 2850s for sale - $200

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Erik Levinson <erik.levinson-IaPBhvjdSnNWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>

Thanks for offering these here.

| PE1850s are 1U servers with mostly 4GB of RAM, 64-bit two dual-core Xeon 3.4Ghz
| CPUs, PERC4 RAID controller, dual power supplies, rails, cd drive. 
| 
| PE2850s are similar except they have two dual-core Xeon 3.2Ghz CPUs and they're 
| 2U boxes with more drive bays. 

What are the processor model numbers?

I'm guessing that they are NetBurst (P4 family).  Perhaps 7130M and
7140M, 150W TDP per socket, 300W per system.  $1400 and $2000 per chip
at release in 2006!  I bet the cooling solution roars (typical for
rack-mounted servers anyway).

SCSI disks might be be a bit expensive to replace (small, low
capacity, fast).

RAM is probably registered DDR2 with ECC.  Better than the "hope it
works" stuff in ordinary PCs.  (I'm 12 hours into memtest86+ on some
notebook RAM I bought yesterday, wishing all RAM was ECC.)
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