Incidentally, my Dell PowerWedge 600SC arrived early last week. I
haven't ordered the RAM and disks I want to put in it yet, and I
haven't had time to do a proper inventory of just what the heck
hardware I've really got, but so far:
The case is small, but looks very slick. No fans blowing directly
over the hard drive area (which is a nifty feature of the nice $70
Chen-Ming 601 case on one of my other machines), but there are two
big honking fans in there blowing air in and out. The one in
the back is nearly 5 inches across, the fan in the front is smaller
but looks somewhat bigger than the usual 80 mm size, maybe 90 or 100
mm. I don't think cooling will be a problem.
Running memtest86 on the paltry 128 MB (but registered ECC!) RAM from
Dell shows 49 errors within the first minute or two, most almost
immediately, then no additional errors over several hours. The power
supply is only rated 250 W max and has only a single fan, so maybe
it's a low quality unit, and responsible for the problems. Or maybe
the RAM's just bad. Won't know till I try the real RAM for the
machine.
