I'm tempted to buy a few of these just for the SSDs, but I so don't need even more servers. Price is listed as $104.99 + $39.99 shipping, and seller auto-rejected my offer of $90 for 2.
The description says it includes a LSI 9261-8i w/ Battery Backup but the photos also show what appears to be an external SAS card.
Are there any gotchas with these Oracle servers? I think it's possible to upgrade them to support Ivy Bridge since I've seen such for sale. I used to run SPARC servers at home, and I remember everything went south for non-enterprise users when Sun got pwned by Oracle, so it may be difficult to get the latest firmware, if nothing else.
30 available, 9 sold and I think I had seen these had a higher price earlier in the week.
I have no relation to seller other than that I have purchased something from them before, long enough ago that I don't remember what it was.
Edit: I can't believe I forgot the link.
Also, link to earlier discussion on the Sun F40 SSDs
The description says it includes a LSI 9261-8i w/ Battery Backup but the photos also show what appears to be an external SAS card.
Are there any gotchas with these Oracle servers? I think it's possible to upgrade them to support Ivy Bridge since I've seen such for sale. I used to run SPARC servers at home, and I remember everything went south for non-enterprise users when Sun got pwned by Oracle, so it may be difficult to get the latest firmware, if nothing else.
30 available, 9 sold and I think I had seen these had a higher price earlier in the week.
I have no relation to seller other than that I have purchased something from them before, long enough ago that I don't remember what it was.
Edit: I can't believe I forgot the link.
Also, link to earlier discussion on the Sun F40 SSDs
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