<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2008 8:11 PM, Erik Anderson <<a href="mailto:erikerik@gmail.com">erikerik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Jan 16, 2008 6:39 PM, Steve Totaro <<a href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com">stotaro@totarotechnologies.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Unbeatable price for a low end Asterisk server (or any server for that
<br>> matter)<br>><br>> <a href="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bednv4k&s=bsd" target="_blank">http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bednv4k&s=bsd
</a><br>><br>> I wonder if anyone has any experience with this box and Digium or Sangoma<br>> hardware? Any compatibility issues? If not, I might stock up on them.<br><br></div></div>Wow - that *is* a great price. I don't have any of this particular
<br>box in production, but I do have 2 PowerEdge SC440s (one step up from<br>the T105) running asterisk along with Sangoma PRI cards. They're<br>working great. I really only have two issues with these low-end<br>servers:
<br><br>1. You can't order 'em with RAID support. I'm getting around this by<br>using software RAID1 in linux, but I'd much prefer having a hardware<br>RAID controller.<br>2. The Dell DRAC remote management cards aren't compatible with these
<br>low-end server motherboards. I've become *completely* addicted to the<br>DRAC cards on the high-end PowerEdges, to the point that I now refuse<br>to order a server without a DRAC card.<br><br>That said, I'm sure this server would run a small/medium asterisk
<br>install just fine.<br><br>-Erik<br></blockquote><div><br>You can add the raid option for $199. I think I might pickup about ten of them at this price. I can always resell them as general purpose servers or even workstations if Asterisk/Zaptel/Linux does not like the boxen.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro<br></div></div><br>