On 08/03/11 11:20 AM, Todd wrote:
Hi John,
what are you doing with this email when you recieve it, beyond just saving it?I plan to analysis the mail to group into e-mails on the same topic and create a comprehensive answer to the topics. Along the lines of a FAQ for topics that are continually being asked over and over as well as more advanced, obscure topics that people may want to chime into.
If I had $500 to spend, not counting money for hard disks, could I even get a machine for that? or do I really need to be scraping more cash together?
That machine I mentioned, configured with 2 x 6 core 2.8Ghz E5660's and 48GB ram, and the 25 bay SFF (2.5") drive chassis, redundant power, and a P411 RAID card with 1gb flash-back write-cache (equivalent to battery backed, but without needing battery replacements every 3-4 years) was about $8000 with a discount. and no disks.
for $500, you could get a low end desktop computer. or a HP microserver.