This is, by all means, a stupid idea for you right now. The only reason I could see you wanting this is for the 'leet-ness' factor. Here's why:
-Why go with a rack mount? Use a tower or mini-tower and use more standard desktop components to save money and get more power without the cabinet rental increasing much.
-Why such weak RAM? Plus. read up on ECC and Buffering in RAM and take a wild guess which you want. That RAM is sloooww!
-Slow drive? WHY??!
-For the record, a "Tier 1" (Wake up and call it a T1 like the rest of the world!) is 1.544mbps. That's.. Not good. If you're referring simply to a T-1 carrier, why even mention that other than the 'leet-ness' perception of your post? no respectable DC will have anything but multi-carrier networks, and even then it's not a necessity. But again, why even bring it up?
Why would you purchase it yourself instead of renting from somewhere else? In the amount of time it will take for the cost of the two to even out, the combination of incredibly fast pipelines, tech support, free hardware replacements, and the ability to simply choose to rent new hardware as an upgrade when better hardware is out without having to repurchase, you'll be way ahead of the game.
As far as making it rack-mounted..
Again, why? If you got a FiOS line to your house you could get better bandwidth than a T1 for cheaper and not even have to pay a rental fee. Unless you're like me, you probably don't have a rack in your house to mount it on, so again, why not just use a standard tower-style case?
To get to the point:
It's not worth $700 to do something seemingly leet.
Colocation plans with datacenters aren't worth it unless you buy in bulk.
"Is that going to be enough to run two 66 Tick 20 player sourceforts servers lag free?" - Not necessarily.
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Last edited by Tony; 01-31-2007 at 07:33 AM.
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