Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: cheap Dell servers for next 4 days

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Posted by Don Baccus on
How would you know you've never had a one-bit memory error correctable by ECC?  There's no way to know ...

It's not that much more expensive.  We're talking about $425 to put 2 GB of ECC Registered DDR (Kingston).  Good grief!  2 GB!  Add a $200 second platter and you've got great little OpenACS server for $1000.

Now think about prices three years ago for a decent SCSI-based server box with 1 GB, say a P733, and a couple of 9 GB platters ...

Consumers.  We'll be bitching when they pay *us* to take their server boxes off their hands!