CentOS on Compaq Proliant Rackmount Servers

[tonyw at tonyw.com (Tony Wicks)]

Strangely enough I just had a quick look on the Dell website and unless 
I am going mad it appears that Dell is selling the PE750 at 1/2 the 
price in New Zealand than they are in the US, which is absolutely 
bizzare. I get a PE750 with p4 3.0 and raid1 160gig sata for 2100NZD = 
1400USD, but the same thing on the Dell US site prices up at 3000 USD ? 
WTF ?


Tony Wicks wrote:

> I run Centos on Compaq dl380g1/2/3's and Dell servers. While the 
> Compaqs are strong hardware they are old and frankly the performance 
> compared to modern (cheap or otherwise) hardware is not really that 
> impressive. A dual 1 gig P3 dl380 and ultra 3 scsi drives get 
> significantly out performed by a generic celeron with software raid 
> SATA drives. I firmly believe the best value for money and performance 
> is the Dell Poweredge 750 with hardware raid SATA drives. The PE 750 
> is cheap and installs out of the box (Centos 3 and 4), performes 
> flawlessly and is extremely fast.
>