$30 Dedicated Server offers?

earl

@jkr1711 said: @earl I guess the limiting factor would be the sheer price of powering these old dinosaurs really

Yeah I'm sure they are not as power efficient as the newer models but I don't think it would cost more than $10/m to power these..

earl

@biplab said: My box shows a much better result.

Whats the model number of your drive?

jkr1711

@earl Possibly but the niche is probably too small

@Freek Hmm you might want to double check that

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 13.1308 s, 81.8 MB/s

And that's whilst running a Minecraft server

earl

@jkr1711

I told freek to check the setting in the bios maybe it's on IDE mode? I read in one of the threads here that changing it to AHCI mode makes a big difference..

Freek

@earl said: I wonder how many people would sign up for a Pentium III server for like $10-15/m?

Why get that if you can get an OVH/Kimsufi Atom for the same price?

@biplab said: My box shows a much better result.

Is that on RAID1 or RAID0?

This is mine on RAID1, idle server:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync; unlink test
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 28.436 s, 37.8 MB/s

@earl said: Whats the model number of your drive?

Mine: HP (GB0250EAFYK) 250 GB SATA Hard Drive

@earl said: I told freek to check the setting in the bios maybe it's on IDE mode?

Creating a ticket now !

erhwegesrgsr

@jkr1711 said: And that's whilst running a Minecraft server

Doesn't Minecraft go wild on IOPS instead of write speeds?

biplab

@Freek said: Is that on RAID1 or RAID0?

Raid-1. Idle server.

@earl said: Whats the model number of your drive?

Model Number:       WDC WD2502ABYS-18B7A0

earl

Because a pentiumIII would definitely be a lowendbox..as the tagline goes "hosting websites on bare minimum servers"

RyanD

@netadmin

Only e3v2 e5 and e5620 in Clifton. Nothing on the low end

RyanD

@earl what no raspberry pis?

jkr1711

@BronzeByte, depends if/how many new chunks are being written to the disk as well

erhwegesrgsr

@RyanD said: what no raspberry pis?

They are more powerful, yet more efficiently than Pentiums :P

earl

@ryand I think William from edis tried that but I don't think it really took off..

Freek

@biplab said: Raid-1. Idle server.

@earl said: Whats the model number of your drive?

Model Number: WDC WD2502ABYS-18B7A0

Interesting. i3d tells me that they use all the same type of HDDs for their servers and they're all brand new. One drive of mine has 11500+Hours of runtime (480 Days) and the other one has 4075 Hours of runtime...
Anyway, they are willing to swap them for WDC's for free, but I have to backup my data. Swapping them out in steps (i.e. swap one out, rebuild raid, swap the other one) wasn't possible.
Whats the best way to backup the data? Snapshot or? If so, how? (This is gonna end well..)

hyao

@qps: What would be your buydown fee for 2x1TB, or 2x2TB, 32G? thanks

qps

@hyao said: What would be your buydown fee for 2x1TB, or 2x2TB, 32G? thanks

We can't go to 32 GB RAM on these servers. They max out at 24 GB.

We do have other servers that will go to 32 GB for the Dual L5420... but not at the price I listed earlier.

As for the prices, please PM me if you are still interested. Thanks.

RyanD

@hyao if you really want a ton of ram we can do well beyond 32gb but it's only monthlies and would be outside of "LEB" pricing @ $99/mo

hyao

@qps: Thanks. Buydown for 2x1TB, or 2x2TB, 24G then. I believe there are quite a few LET readers interested in a good offer :-)

@RyanD: thanks

ztec

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.2137 s, 105 MB/s

Guess I'm lucky, probably not keeping it though.