A2zcomputer.com is where I found the best deal on the processors and
motherboard and rambus. I think there was a few other places that carried
the 2.8mhz processors but didnt have them in stock yet.
Jeremy Leonard
IT Manager
K-T Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: David M Gartner [mailto:
dgartner@...]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:23 AM
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Solid State Drives
Ok Jeremy who is your vendor? I know you don't buy this stuff out of a car
trunk.
Seriously, Did you build this system yourself? If so, wow. If not, I am
still a little green.
David Gartner
EPG Companies Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard, Jeremy [mailto:
jleonard@...]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 8:40 AM
To: '
vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Solid State Drives
Their current model ships with an external power supply which of course,
you
will want to plug into a UPS.
I created a 4096mb partition on a standard SCSI drive. I plan to run the
vantage backup every hour to the ramdrive and then copy the backup file
to
the partition on the SCSI Drive. I will also backup the whole ramdrive
every night to the SCSI drive where it will be backed up to Tape media.
I am also working on coming up with a replacement for the standard Windows
2000 Shutdown so that whenever we shut down the server it does a complete
backup of the RAMDRIVE.
One thing that we just noticed is how hot the ramdrive gets. We will be
looking at getting an inexpensive cooling fan to mount in the PCI Slots
about and below it.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that if you purchase the RAMDrive
from
Cenetek you can buy the DL version which is the RAMDRIVE PCI Board without
any Ram. Then you can buy your ram elsewhere and save at least 70%.
We paid $899.00 for the board and $312.00 for four 1GB standard ECC SDRAM
chips.
As far as the server goes, we paid $500.00 for each processor, $600.00 for
the best motherboard available and $1,200 for 2GB or RAMBUS. We had
enough
parts to come up with the rest. Of course you can save allot of money if
you get a smaller motherboard and go with SDRAM.
Thanks
Jeremy Leonard
IT Manager
K-T Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Boyes [mailto:
brianb@...]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 8:19 AM
To: '
vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Solid State Drives
Wow, Jeremy! That's quite the server you got there.
Server envy aside, my question is this: What kind of redundant power does
the solid state drive have? We were pondering those drives here and that
question came up.
Thanks
Brian Boyes,
Systems Administrator,
Precision Resource Canada Ltd.
<
http://www.precisionresource.com>
<mailto:
brianb@...>
> -----Original Message-----
> I followed the string on Solid State drives last week and
> that got me to
> thinking that it might be useful to use. I thought I would
> share what I
> have observed so far.
>
> We purchased a new dual Zeon 2.8 Motherboard with 2GB RamBus and a 4GB
> Ramdrive from Cenatek.com..
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