A Server for under £80.00?

[leemason]

The HP Microserver has £100.00 cash back from HP until the end of March. So purchasing something like this http://www.ebuyer.com/product/237003 would be less that £80.00 after cash back. Admittedly you need to buy disk separately and it doesn't come with an O/S but will run Windows Foundation edition, Linux, and even VMware ESXi!!! And it supports RAID 0 and 1, up to 8GB of memory, and 4 x SATA disks.

 

[Jim2k]

I havent used one of these in anger yet but I'm sure it won;t be long. I still like to see a big heavy box in a darkened room somewhere though

 

[leemason]

I havent used one of these in anger yet but I'm sure it won;t be long. I still like to see a big heavy box in a darkened room somewhere though

Yes I agree. And one with flashing lights as well...

 

[Ian234]

If you were looking for a cheap server you would probalby be better with a HP ML110 these can be got for £150 but are good enough for running Win SBS2008 and have raid. I would expect a lot of businesses to outgrow the microserver quite quickly.

 

[leemason]

Interestingly the Microserver has the same memory capacity as the ML110 (8GB) and actually accommodates more SATA drives as standard (4 in the Microserver against only 2 supported by the internal SATA RAID controller on the ML110). Admittedly their are more CPU options in the ML110.

 

[leemason]

You even have the option of 3 years onsite support for about £85.00!