I had a nice little ride through the mountains on the R1 weekend ..over 500 miles.
Even though the weather was a little spotty we (3 of us) hit up most of the good roads in NE Georgia before we went up to Deals Gap.
FYI, beware the paparazzi on GA180 they like to run out infront of you as you enter a turn! Here’s my “WTF!!!” wave, what you can’t see is the dude on my left that just ran out there.
Found a great deal on a Sun W2100Z this past friday. It was built out pretty similiar to my workstation in the office with the exception of a little more cpu uoommph.
Anyway. .this thing has Dual Opteron 250’s, 2 73Gb scsi disk, a FX3000 ( yes a $1500 video card) all for the nice little sum of $1100. I know I didn’t need to spend the money . .but it was just too good of a deal to turn down. Retail on that setup is around $4500-5000 easy. All was going well until the last 17 secs. I had it made.., until I was ousted by a swarm of snipers. Losing out to a final price of $1180. Had I been a little wiser I would have waited a little longer before I placed my first bid, and I would have bid HIGHER. Live and learn.
Anyway..partly in an upset rage, and a momentary lapse of sanity, I found some decent deals on an Ultra 80 (quad 450’s) and a Blade 1000 (dual 750s). Turns out, I won both. Now I need to figure out what to do with the Ultra 80 since it has way more bang than I needed for my Home NAS. Did I mention that’s why I was on ebay to begain with? Guess my next investment will be additional cooling for the spare room that is housing this datacenter.