On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 09:46:59AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/26/11 9:43 AM, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > > On 26 Mar 2011, at 15:40, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > > >> while I'd agree with the rest of your assessments, on servers 1 nic is > >> NOT that common, > > Neither are servers for €160! At that price I would expect to buy > > another card or just use vlans! > > yeah, I looked up that server... its more like a SOHO mini-NAS, and in > fact would be awesome if it just had hotswap trays for the 4 SATA > drives, but no, they are not hotswap. its really more of a storage > centric micro-PC, but it does have ECC memory. dual core low end > athlon, 1-8gb ram, 4 sata bays, 1 pci-express x16 slot and 1 pci-e x1 > slot, single NIC, onboard AMD video. The HP MicroServer does have hot-swappable trays... Great little box. Ray