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

[Thomas Backlund]

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.
>

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Thomas