Mike, I have 6 Compaq servers. I retired one the other day due to old age. It has been up and running without missing a day of service for 7 years. It has been running Novell and at one point it had over a year of continueous up time. I had to take it down to move some stuff. It was a 486 with dual 4 gig scsi drives.
I have 5 other Compaq servers that have been running without problems for years. I had a hard drive go out on a new server 3 years ago, and a tape drive died a couple of months ago. Both components were under warrenty, and neither one caused missing any production up time. If I were going to buy a new server tomorrow, I would get a dual processor Compaq with hot swapable hard drives. You can get a good server for $3000, or you may want to spend more. You get what you pay for. Get 10,000 rpm hot swapable scsi drives. More drives are better that larger drives. You can mirror or stripe them take your pick. If you are going to stripe the drives spend some money and get a good array disk controller. I think all of the servers any more come with error correcting memory. Troy Sosamon Denver, Co. >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >One of my customers wants to upgrade to a new server. All he does is run Rbase >(very loyal!). He asked me for an opinion regarding Compaq servers (like the >ML350) vs Dell servers (like the Power Edge 2500). > >I don't have a clue! The machines have the same specs (RAID 5, 512 meg of RAM, >1.26 GHz Pentium III, etc). Anybody got any experience? > >TIA! > >Mike Sinclair Troy Sosamon Denver Co [EMAIL PROTECTED]
