Dell Poweredge SC440

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[edit] Dell Poweredge SC440

This system was purchased during a Smart Value special on the Dell website for $555.44(after taxes and shipping). So far in the less than one month I've owned it, the CDROM has broken (no big deal since I planned on using the DVDROM from the SC430 I already have), and the fans in the system are really noisy (in comparison to the SC430). Once I get the time, I plan on addressing these issues with Dell technical support and see what kind of resolution I can get from them. In terms of performance, the system is running 5 VMs and has been running relatively quickly. For the price, you really can't beat it. The complete specs are as follows:

Dual Core Intel® Pentium®D 915, 2x2MB Cache, 2.8GHz, 800MHz FSB
1GB DDR2, 533MHz, 2x512MB Single Ranked DIMMs
2x160GB SATA 3.5" 7200RPM Hard Drives
Onboard SATA, no RAID
48X CD-ROM (I have the DVD-ROM from the other SC430)
No Mouse, no Keyboard, no Floppy, no OS
1yr Basic Support, 5x10 Hardware support, 5x10 NBD onsite support

This server is used for a large portion of the Kathmann Labs projects. Almost anything on the Software Projects Page is done through VMWare on this server.