On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Most 1U systems tends to have some kind of funkiness to them.
True, there are only so many ways to cram 25 pounds of shit into a 1U bag. > 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. Actually, SuperMicro does this pretty well these days. There are a few other companies building "generic" 1U servers (although they still cost upwards of $500) that result in reliable, flexible boxes. > 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. Agreed. We use liberal applications of Dell 1750's, and have always been satisfied with them. Although, an "average" box ends up being about $3000 by the time you are done. > 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. True again, although I do have 3 generations of Dell servers, running 3 generations of RedHat, and have never really had any real problems. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
