On 9/22/2015 2:22 PM, Karlsson & Wang wrote: >> If it is for professional use, I would not get a refurb unit. Why take >> someone else's problem for a few bucks. For the mini(itx,atx) systems, >> cooling is the biggest issue. They tend to often focus on home media apps, >> and they want the lowest sound, which means poor thermal management. I's >> the same reason you don't use a laptop in a server situation, no matter how >> cheap it is. Depending on the mounting, either small towers or small 1U >> rack mount chassis do the best, IMO. > > According to my experience old servers or other large computer often could be > bought cheap.
What you don't want is a cheap or free server that an IT department too lazy to remove the drives from their sleds has prepped for disposal. Replacement sleds tend to be expensive, hard to find or both. There are closets all over this land with years old hard drives on shelves, still screwed into sleds the owner of the drives have no servers they'll fit. If they're that paranoid about security, remove the drives from the sleds, pop those back into the servers before selling or giving them away - then have a sledgehammer party with the drives. Nobody is recovering any data from platters mashed and distorted and scraped up, or shattered into powder if they're glass. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
