On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, at 12:02pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That alone would make me say no thanks to buying it.
Most 1U systems tends to have some kind of funkiness to them. That's the price you pay for stuffing hardware into such a small form-factor. In particular, the CD/FDD are very often non-standard. The only exceptions to this that I've seen are when someone takes a generic motherboard and just stuffs it into a generic 1U case, which generally yields a pretty poor feature set, plus a tendency for thermal problems. That being said, Compaq (which is where the design for the "HP" Proliant in question came from) is notorious for gratuitous incompatibilities. So it may not be as bad with other systems. But in general, expect some funkiness, or don't buy a 1U. FWIW, Dell makes some decent 1U servers. One of them "starts" at $600, although that's after rebates and before shipping and taxes. That does include 3-year on-site NBD warranty service, though. One word of warning: Dell sometimes uses hardware which is only supported by binary-only drivers on Linux. That's generally not an issue if you're running one of the two big commercial distros (SuSE or Red Hat), but it can be a real problem if you're not. Of course, Dell is hardly alone in this. In general (in life, not just with computers), the more you ask, the higher the price. So you have to decide where on the price/convenience graph you want to be. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss