Tech Details: Supermicro X7DBU Motherboard SuperMicro SC815 Chassis Dual Quad-Core E5430 2.66ghz, 4GB RAM will be swapped to 16GB from original X7DA8 server
Refurbished Server $145 including shipping
IPMI Lights Out Management Card $22
SSD Bracket in place of worthless DVD drive $13
128GB Crucial M4 SSD (Already purchased)
16GB DDR2 FBDIMM Server Memory Now 32GB as of 2014!
Quick-Mount Rack Rails MCP-290-00056-0N
Four 2 TB Seagate Drives ($99 each - total $396)
Total spent on hardware so far: ~$850

Wish list:
Two years of 1U hosting @ Opus Interactive ($70/month * 24 Months = $1680 prepaid)

If you want to send donation checks to help cover the cost of bandwidth/hosting, please send to the following address (also listed on our skylab.org domain WHOIS )
Tech Name:		Ryan Sayre
Tech Street:		4755 SW Stoddard Dr.
Tech City:		Aloha
Tech State/Province:	OR
Tech Postal Code:	97078-1056
Tech Country:		US
Tech Phone:		+1.5032242163


The old system was a donated SuperMicro SuperWorkstation 7045A-WTB built with X7DA8 motherboard with dual quad-core (8 cores total) 2.4ghz Xeon processors, 16GB of ECC RAM, five 1TB 7200RPM hard drives, DVD-RW, and nVidia workstation graphics. Its form factor was not conducive to colocation.