I recently got this Delimiter HP BL260C E5420 dedicated server for $60/quarter (actually $59.40/quarter with a 1% coupon). So about $20 a month.
- Dual E5420 cpus (8 cores total)
- 16GB RAM
- Two 500GB hard drives
- 10TB bandwidth
It took about 3 1/2 days to get it after ordering (during the business week). I paid with bitcoin. After getting an automated email that they had received my payment, I received no further emails until 3 1/2 days later when I got an automated "your server is ready" email. The long silence made me a little nervous, but it all worked out.
It came delivered by default with Centos 6 (what I would have chosen anyway). There are options to reprovision to a different OS, and I noticed in the setup options it could also configure software RAID if you want it. I'll probably keep the drives separate so I can use all the space. The server does not have a hardware RAID card.
It looks like the hard drives are WD Blue 5400 rpm 2.5" drives.
Here's smartctl info for the first drive:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD5000LPVX-22V0TT0 Serial Number: WD-WX21EC3FVT96 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 60453af83 Firmware Version: 01.01A01 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ACS-2 (revision not indicated) Local Time is: Fri Jan 29 17:29:28 2016 PHT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 154 149 021 Pre-fail Always - 1300 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 280279 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 10133 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 30 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 29 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 714500 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 124 097 000 Old_age Always - 19 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
And the second drive:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD5000LPVX-00V0TT0 Serial Number: WD-WX81E73SKCV2 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 6aec5a286 Firmware Version: 01.01A01 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ACS-2 (revision not indicated) Local Time is: Fri Jan 29 17:40:20 2016 PHT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 151 151 021 Pre-fail Always - 1441 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 34 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 080 080 000 Old_age Always - 14853 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 34 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 32 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1003821 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 102 000 Old_age Always - 22 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
Note that the first drive has a "power on hours" value of 10133 hours (1.15 years) and the second drive has a "power on hours" value of 14853 hours (1.69 years). This seems contrary to Delimiter's claim that they always use new or almost new drives when they deploy their servers.
Here's dd output for the first drive:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.0549 s, 89.1 MB/s
More later if I can think of anything else.