[Asterisk-Users] System Reqirements HELP

[Jay Milk]

I've seen 1U cases with PS for around $200 -- add the low-pro fan for
$50, then the rest of the system should still come in a hair under $600.
www.tigerdirect.com has rackmountable barebones starting in the $600s --
here's one:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Edp
No=297503&CatId=1205 (P4/2.0, 512MB, 40GB $650).

 Personally, I think rack-mounting really isn't worth the price unless
you pay for your rackspace.  I picked up a half dozen desktop-cases for
$25/each, and they're equivalent to 3U+ rackmounts, with the exception
of price.  My arrangement of choice for my home-office is a "horizontal
Rack" -- My $70 "Industria" Chrome wire-shelf (from Sam's Club)
currently holds seven mini-towers, one desktop case, 6UPSs, printer,
scanner, two hubs, router, KVM, fax machine and various boxes with
supplies.  Of course I could fit most of this into a 20-30U rack, but
it' simply cost prohibitive ($2,500+)... And it still wouldn't fit
printer and scanner.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven P. Donegan [mailto:steve at donegan.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 12:02 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] System Reqirements HELP
> 
> 
> Jay Milk wrote:
> 
> >You overpaid.  Whether it's a P4 OR a Celeron (which one is it?), a 
> >2.2Ghz machine with 256MB RAM and two small drives shouldn't 
> have cost 
> >you more than $400-$500.  I got a 2.7GHz Celeron/MB combo for $120 
> >(less $40 rebate), 256MB RAM for $40 and 40GB drives 
> shouldn't run you 
> >more than $50/each.  $100 more of it's a P4 instead of a 
> Celeron.  Add 
> >a
> >case+PS for $40-$50.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Steven P. Donegan [mailto:steve at donegan.org]
> >>Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:45 AM
> >>To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> >>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] System Reqirements HELP
> >>I bought a 5013G-i barebones 1U from Supermicro 
> (www.supermicro.com). 
> >>Nice chassis :-) Added 256M ram and a 2.2 Ghz p4 celeron and 
> >>2 40g ata 
> >>133 ide drives - complete 1U rack mountable system for <1k$. 
> >>Installed 
> >>RedHat 9 plus all updates/errata, my Asterisk CVS get/make/install 
> >>scripts and voila - instant Asterisk box :-) This makes 
> >>Asterisk #3 in 
> >>the home network :-)
> >>
> >>The SIP stuff you reference is dead easy. The ISDN - well, ISDN is
> >>pretty much dead here in the US (except PRI) so on that I'm 
> >>sure someone 
> >>else will assist.
> >>
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> This is a 1U chassis - the bare chassis is 500$ (with motherboard, 
> floppy, cdrom, power supply) the rest I added myself. And if you know 
> where you can get a proper 1U rackmount bare bones box for 
> less I'm all 
> ears..... (if you can I'll be surprised - I've been building 
> PC's from 
> scratch for as long as PC's have existed - before that it was S100 
> system - before that it was truely from scratch :-)
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