Well, after almost 6 weeks from my original purchase of hardware, I finally have a working box. While I still haven’t been refunded for the original machine, at least I have a working machine. I ended finding a company that specializes in gaming machines. I came to an interesting conclusion. If you aren’t going to start investing in a true high end “server”, the next best thing is a gaming machine. I’ve found that gaming machines are the most powerful machines that the average person ever needs. This puts them into the affordable range, without investing in servers.
Now, I did do a little homework this time around. First off, gaming machines need to be current technology, rather than 2007 like the Dell T7400 I tried. All the components are easily purchased on my own. In fact, I could have made the machine for roughly $300 less, but having someone else build it, warranty it and test it, was well worth the $300 to me. And this is coming from someone that used to build machines.
The good news it that I’ve been able to hand the machine over to my contract with a barebones SUSE operating system. Now the real fun will begin. I have no Linux experience, and no HANA experience… let the good times roll.
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