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Posted at 10:43 PM on Friday 02/5/10 by
Ben
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Dell Business has the Dell PowerEdge T100 Server for $299 + $25 shipping = $324 shipped. No operating system included.

  • Dual Core Intel Pentium E5400 2.7GHz, 1GB DDR2 800MHz, Onboard SATA
  • 2 x 160GB 7200RPM SATA HDD, 16x DVD drive, 1 year hardware warranty
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      doesgof - Posted 6:54 am PST 02/6/10 (565 Posts)  Report Spam

      four different E5400s - only two have VT-x. too bad dell doesn't say which one is in this.

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      nerdnac - Posted 7:19 am PST 02/6/10 (13 Posts)  Report Spam

      According to this VT is supported:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization

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      Pdok - Posted 7:40 am PST 02/6/10 (740 Posts)  Report Spam

      No thanks. Dell charges $220 to upgrade to 500GB drives, and there's no way the base configuration makes any sense to me without upgrades anyway. I can get there with off the shelf stuff way cheaper and end up with lots of storage.

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      freakingid10ts - Posted 7:40 am PST 02/6/10 (148 Posts)  Report Spam

      #1 is right, spec code SLGTK supports VT-x, SLB9V does not, you won't know which one you'll get. This is their cheapest server, a desktop masquerading as a server.

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      cheapyet - Posted 7:42 am PST 02/6/10 (329 Posts)  Report Spam

      #1 this is for SERVER not gaming machine.

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      doomed - Posted 10:38 am PST 02/6/10 (1232 Posts)  Report Spam

      #3 so upgrade the drives yourself.

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      kosherkracker - Posted 10:55 am PST 02/6/10 (510 Posts)  Report Spam

      btw, I emailed Dell to see if I could return the 2G that came w/ my T100 for some sort of credit. As I got 8G from FRYS.com.. Yeah no dice, they sent a nice letter saying 'NO'..

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      HomerGoCrazy - Posted 11:12 am PST 02/6/10 (517 Posts)  Report Spam

      If you need a very basic server this isn't too bad a price but if you're going to upgrade the parts through Dell any at all you'd likely be better off going with the T110 or better yet the T310 for not a huge price increase.

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      doesgof - Posted 1:03 pm PST 02/6/10 (565 Posts)  Report Spam

      "#1 this is for SERVER not gaming machine."
      no $hit.
      why would a gaming machine need vt? servers need vt - why run a server bare metal?

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      Ghost Rider - Posted 8:10 pm PST 02/6/10 (3348 Posts)  Report Spam

      W/O hot swap HDD drive, even with server chipset, it not really qualified for Server today. So in case HDD fails- you have to shut down the system to replace HDD ? No hot swap - no online rebuild.Don't even mention redundant power supply... And this like server for last century. You can get a server board and cheap case that will work the same as this unit. Unless you like to pay for Dell Logo on your system.. PASS..

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      Pdok - Posted 7:46 am PST 02/7/10 (740 Posts)  Report Spam

      #6, missing the point. If I'm going to upgrade the drives, then why spend the base price for the pair of 160's anyway? I can start from scratch and do better elsewhere. Even Dell has better deals.

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      daviddpd - Posted 2:16 pm PST 02/9/10 (2 Posts)  Report Spam

      $129 for a 250 GB SATA, $569 for a 1TB SATA ... Dell is making up for the discounts in the hard drive prices.

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