On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:05:35AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> We used your donations to purchase five new machines; three of
> those machines will be added to our nightly build infrastructure
> and two of those machines will become anonymous cvs servers.
> 
> These machines cost the foundation approximately $18,000 and have
> the following specifications:
> 
> 	Anonymous CVS servers (two machines)
> 	2 CPU [2 cpu Opteron 244 (1.8GHz)]
> 	8 GB Memory (8 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)
> 	150 GB Disk (4 SATA 36.7GB 10K RPM drives)
> 
> 	Build Servers (three machines)
> 	4 CPU [2 cpu (dual core) Opteron 265 (1.8GHz)]
> 	4 GB Memory (4 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)
> 	210 GB Disk (3 SATA 74GB 10K RPM 8MB Raptor drives)

Just out of curiosity, why were such small hard drives purchased?  Or
were these older ones that were already laying around?  I was just
wondering, because the going price for 200 GB SATA drives is only about
$100.  Anything smaller is considerably more expensive per GB.