I'm debating on whether to pick up a pair of Dell Poweredge 1750 servers (4GB RAM, dual 3.0GHz netburt Xeon's)
They don't support VT, (hyper threading p4 style Xeons), and are only 32-bit, so no 64-bit guest OS's
That being said, they're only $170CDN (about $150USD) each
Not sure if I should pick them up, since they are cheap., and throw ESXi on them for at home, or don't bother wasting my money and try to pick up some cheap 1950 III's when the Poweredge servers get refreshed with Nehalem Xeons? I won't be using the SCSI disks (they're sold without) so I don't have to worry about the noisy old storage, all VM's will be stored on an openfiler NAS.
Anyone think a 1750 is good for anything other than a space heater?
They don't support VT, (hyper threading p4 style Xeons), and are only 32-bit, so no 64-bit guest OS's
That being said, they're only $170CDN (about $150USD) each
Not sure if I should pick them up, since they are cheap., and throw ESXi on them for at home, or don't bother wasting my money and try to pick up some cheap 1950 III's when the Poweredge servers get refreshed with Nehalem Xeons? I won't be using the SCSI disks (they're sold without) so I don't have to worry about the noisy old storage, all VM's will be stored on an openfiler NAS.
Anyone think a 1750 is good for anything other than a space heater?