Re:The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up
by bluedino on Monday July 27, 2015 @01:57PM
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>> You can buy old Itanium hardware super-cheap now on eBay. I got an HP Integrity RX2620 for £58
My last gig had an Itanium running some HP-UX software that had been cobbled together over the past 20 (?) years. eBay provides cheap parts to upgrade the server as well as put together a machine for the failover datacenter.
CPU and RAM were both cheap. However, you're stuck with commodity SCSI drives which are still expensive for the largest sizes. 300GB drives, NIB and matching are like $150 USD a piece.
My last gig had an Itanium running some HP-UX software that had been cobbled together over the past 20 (?) years. eBay provides cheap parts to upgrade the server as well as put together a machine for the failover datacenter.
CPU and RAM were both cheap. However, you're stuck with commodity SCSI drives which are still expensive for the largest sizes. 300GB drives, NIB and matching are like $150 USD a piece.