Rackspace - 40Gb System drive?? Seriously??

[JerryMungo]

So on their pricing page, Windows servers in I/O optimized configuration reportedly come with 40Gb system drives :wtf:

https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/pricing

 

[Creag]

Tough times?

 

[JerryMungo]

Tough times?

For Rackspace?

 

[WAslayer]

well to be fair, a server install amounts to around 25 odd gigs.. provided you install all apps to the data drive, you should be okay..

 

[JerryMungo]

well to be fair, a server install amounts to around 25 odd gigs.. provided you install all apps to the data drive, you should be okay..

Server 2012 R2 requires bare minimum of 32 gigs without the GUI.

 

[WAslayer]

Server 2012 R2 requires bare minimum of 32 gigs without the GUI.

So they say, yet my 2012 R2 with GUI totals ~25GB..

 

[JerryMungo]

So they say, yet my 2012 R2 with GUI totals ~25GB..

RAM?