Here are the specs for the two machines we ordered
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| Dell PowerEdge 650, Intel Pentium 4, 3.06GHz, 512K, 533MHz | Rack-optimized server, because it will live…in a rack. Single processor; we won’t be running any super huge apps (Oracle and WebSphere come to mind…). |
| 1.0GB DDR,266MHZ,2X512MB DIMM | Should be more than enough, but we’ll have at least one slot to grow into. Can’t tell if there are 3 or 4 total DIMM slots, but there will be at least one empty because they offer 3 DIMM configurations. |
| Two 120GB 7.2K RPM IDE Hard Drives, RAID 1 mirrored | Big hard drives because the bigger they are, the longer they’ll take to fill up. Which they always do. Mirroring to save us an emergency middle of the night trip to the colo if a disk fails, which they sometimes do. |
| IDE RAID Controller, ATA100 / 4 Channel | Hardware RAID for performance. |
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