In a comment on my previous post about ECC RAM someone commented that Dell sells PowerEdge desktop machines with ECC RAM. I visited the Dell web site and found that a low-end PowerEdge tower server (which still has a Pentium-D dual-core 64bit CPU) costs as little as $800AU. I also noticed that Dell Precision workstations that have ECC RAM – but that start at $2400. I wonder how much noise a low-end PowerEdge machine would produce.
HP Workstations with model codes starting with xw also have ECC RAM and are advertised at $584US as the starting price (about the same as a low-end PowerEdge).
I checked out NEC and Lenovo and according to their web sites they don’t make a desktop or desk-side machine that takes ECC RAM (someone please correct me if I’m wrong).
So now I’m looking for cheap HP Workstations and Dell PowerEdge and Precision machines at auction.
IBM offers servers with ECC RAM.
Anon: EVERYONE offers rack-mount servers (and other machines you don’t want on your desk) with ECC RAM. What I’m after is a workstation or a tower server that is relatively quiet with ECC RAM, and Lenovo doesn’t seem to offer such things.
If there is something I’ve missed then please give me a URL or a model number.