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In my case, it comes down to two words: remote administration ... HP is the only system I've yet found that has it integrated as part of the hardware ...
You will also find hardware integrated remote administration inside IBM and Sun machines. They both run off residual power. So as long as a single power supply module has electricity in it, you have access to your machine via a CLI on a seperate IP. Even if the machine is powered-off. Sun even offers remote dial in over a modem onto their administration module. It's very good and I've been very happy with it over the years, both with IBM and Sun. But I can't say as much as the Dell admin module...
The other selling point for me on HP was the 2.5" SAS drives ... our new servers have 4x72G SAS drives in a 1U space, which means I can do RAID1+0
SAS drives are coming in strong. It's what all new machines will have in the server market in upcoming years. Just take a look at new machines from Sun, IBM and HP, they all switched to SAS drives. They're great, really. But so far I've yet to see 15K rpm in 2,5" SAS form factor. David -- David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"