| Yeormom |
01-15-2009 09:00 PM |
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Originally Posted by trevius
(Post 162845)
Yeormom,
Are you being serious, or are you making fun of his spelling of SCSI? :P
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I was just providing an example of one of many red flags, as AndMetal has begun to mention and quoted again for refernece below...
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Originally Posted by AndMetal
(Post 162854)
As for Yeormom's comment, I assume you understand that if something sounds to good to be true, it usually is. Specifically, you have a motherboard that supports 7 sticks of ECC/Registered RAM ($350-$700), but doesn't have a SCSI controller already, plus you're combining a processor with a 667 MHz FSB with 800 MHz RAM. Add in that your Internet connection itself should be in the ballpark of $3000-$4000/month (up to ~$9000 if it's a full T3), and things start to sound just a little too good.
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I tried and could not locate a motherboard which has more than 6 memory slots (little alone ecc), no onboard scsi controller, and support for dual processors, all while providing either SATA support or a non pci-x slot to support an addon sata card.
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Originally Posted by Cvinion
(Post 162881)
Currently Set up to primary boot on a Virtual machine, but moving here shortly to Scuzi drives for improves performance
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I have no idea this sentence even means after rereading it.
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Originally Posted by Cvinion
(Post 162881)
After talking with a few members of the college, the city and the ISP they have upgraded all internet in this region and all that the current non college residents (all like 7 of us) have brand new internet that costs us only ~30ish dollars more a month than my old crappy 4mbs down /512ks up.
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So they gave you a CSU/DSU and ran the line in your house for a mere potential of $30 profit a month? A cheap full duplex T1 costs $350 a month. As further reference, a quote one week ago to put one of my servers back in a data center is $55 PER Mbps of bandwidth each month PLUS power, rackspace, and switch ports. While residential services are much cheaper, business class services are not.
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Originally Posted by AndMetal
(Post 162854)
...but if you put yourself on the other side of this & play the devil's advocate, then at least you might be able to empathize with Yeormom's comment and accept it as a valid concern rather than a flame :-)
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The one thing run about this community is you will find some highly talented members who lurk around every once in awhile with vast amounts I often consider useless once I leave the office, but often find handy as seen otherwise. Some of the server code is highly customized and thousands of hours have been put into the work so some of us are more cynical than others. Don't take it personally though! <3 |