You'd need to buy a house/shed/garage/conservatory for that kind of nonsense.
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Oneday77
18 Oct 15#1
Will earn more heat if you beef out the specs. It is a quad core processor after all.
khan102
18 Oct 151#2
Els where being sold for more than £300
andywedge
18 Oct 152#3
Afaik the cashback is not automatic and so you have to pay for this (+ delivery) and then put in a claim for cashback, meaning it's a lot more than "£174.89 delivered" http://www.serversplus.com/content.asp?pageid=220
khan102
18 Oct 15#4
Even without cash back its the cheapest I have seen.
googleboogle
18 Oct 15#5
What's the noise like on these ?
naodai_mmx to googleboogle
18 Oct 15#19
As far as I'm concerned noise isn't an issue. Built that with an 750ti for a friend, haven't heard anything negative just yet.
Gooner77
18 Oct 15#6
Does this come with Windows?
brookheather to Gooner77
18 Oct 15#8
No
Oneday77 to Gooner77
18 Oct 1512#10
You'd need to buy a house/shed/garage/conservatory for that kind of nonsense.
hotdealseeker
18 Oct 15#7
Does it have RAID?
brookheather to hotdealseeker
18 Oct 15#9
Yes
jazlabs to hotdealseeker
9 Nov 15#118
I appreciate this question was a couple of weeks ago, but I have an update that could be relevant to newcomers;
The on-board Intel RAID controller in this unit doesn't provide real hardware RAID. To be honest, considering real RAID controllers are £400+, it's not really surprising. What this actually has is a multi-channel SATA controller with bios settings that allow the RAID support to be picked up by Windows. In the Linux community this is known as Fake RAID, and you may find trouble getting RAID to work in Linux if you configure the RAID in bios.
Unlike a traditional hardware RAID controller, the actual work involved in mirroring and/or striping the data is being performed by the CPU, rather than the RAID controller - it's an on-board "software RAID". This means that the performance is similar (or sometimes worse) than using standard software RAID (e.g. MDADM in Linux). Also, with a hardware RAID controller, the array is presented as a single disk to the O/S, with Fake RAID the individual disks are still presented to the O/S, but with some additional metadata (vague - more research required) to allow the O/S to understand how the array is constructed.
When configuring the RAID in the m/b settings as RAID 1 and installing Ubuntu, the installation completed, but the O/S failed to boot. After some reading, it seemed that the better choice was to configure the disks as Non-RAID devices on the m/b and use software RAID provided by Linux instead.
If anyone has better information, please feel free to correct me. I'm only used to configuring this on higher-end rack servers, using Software/Fake RAID is a first for me.
geeko
18 Oct 15#11
If you have an old server to trade in you could potentially get £150 trade in for it against the T20 https://plus.delltradetosave.com/gb/en/pages/home
The caveat being the trade in server must be less than 6 years old and have a minimum of 250gb storage.
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http://www.serversplus.com/content.asp?pageid=220
The on-board Intel RAID controller in this unit doesn't provide real hardware RAID. To be honest, considering real RAID controllers are £400+, it's not really surprising. What this actually has is a multi-channel SATA controller with bios settings that allow the RAID support to be picked up by Windows. In the Linux community this is known as Fake RAID, and you may find trouble getting RAID to work in Linux if you configure the RAID in bios.
Unlike a traditional hardware RAID controller, the actual work involved in mirroring and/or striping the data is being performed by the CPU, rather than the RAID controller - it's an on-board "software RAID". This means that the performance is similar (or sometimes worse) than using standard software RAID (e.g. MDADM in Linux). Also, with a hardware RAID controller, the array is presented as a single disk to the O/S, with Fake RAID the individual disks are still presented to the O/S, but with some additional metadata (vague - more research required) to allow the O/S to understand how the array is constructed.
When configuring the RAID in the m/b settings as RAID 1 and installing Ubuntu, the installation completed, but the O/S failed to boot. After some reading, it seemed that the better choice was to configure the disks as Non-RAID devices on the m/b and use software RAID provided by Linux instead.
If anyone has better information, please feel free to correct me. I'm only used to configuring this on higher-end rack servers, using Software/Fake RAID is a first for me.
https://plus.delltradetosave.com/gb/en/pages/home
The caveat being the trade in server must be less than 6 years old and have a minimum of 250gb storage.