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.