Enjoying brand new server

Two weeks ago we ordered a new server, to replace the old PC we was using for the intranet at the company. Our new machine is a Dell PowerEdge R200, brand new, and we bought it for a ridiculous price (we was  tempt to buy three or four more for the render farm, but finally we decided that it could be hasty).

It has a Dual Xeon 2,3 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, two SCSI hds (160 GB each on RAID), and 3 GigaLAN interfaces.

I installed Fedora Core 9 on it, and after optimize and installing the required services for the intranet, the machine has a superb performance. It’s noisy (but we don’t care about that, because it will be on another room), but it couldn’t  heat less.

I’m very happy with this new toy, it’s the first dedicated server machine I have (except for the 3 dedicated servers I rented), and I’m impatient to extend the “collection” soon. For the moment we was looking some racks with integrated SAI and monitor that could fit so well on our office.