[Mageia-sysadm] Buying 2 Dell servers: final price and rebate from Dell

Mon Jul 23 21:58:03 CEST 2012

Olivier Blin skrev 23.7.2012 22:51:
+> Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> writes:
+>
+>> Damien Lallement <mageia at damsweb.net> writes:
+>>
+>>> Hi people,
+>>>
+>>> For rabbit.mageia.org:
+>>> 2 770.50 € (without taxes) instead of 3 260.00 € (w/o taxes)
+>>>
+>>> For ecosse.mageia.org:
+>>> 3 505.00 € (without taxes) instead of 4 035.00 € (w/o taxes)
+>>>
+>>> Final price:
+>>> 6 365.50 € (without taxes) instead of 7 295.00 € (w/o taxes)
+>>> We earn 929.50 €
+>>> Taxes: 1 247.64 €
+>>> Shipment: 90.00 €
+>>> Total price: 7 613,14 € for this 2 new powerful servers.
+>>>
+>>> So, do you agree or disagree with this?
+>>
+>> What are these servers going to be used for?
+>
+> (gah, I found back by glasses)
+>
+> Can't we reuse the RAM from the old servers?
+> Isn't 48GB a bit too much for rabbit?
+>
+
+We plan on building isos on tmpfs... to get fast speed without being
+I/O bound... and adding more ram is cheaper than fast disks...
+
+> About disk for rabbit, 2 x 1TB SAS seems quite big, I presume SAS is
+> pretty expensive over SATA. We could probably use smaller SAS disks, and
+
+They are nearline SAS (wich is SATA disks in dsiguise with SAS firmware)
+
+> have a bigger SATA one, since most of the disk usage for live systems on
+> rabbit was for backup of "continuous" builds.
+>
+
+--
+
+Thomas
+
+