On 9/25/2010 1:57 AM, Ian Collins wrote:
On 09/25/10 02:54 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
Honestly, I've said it before, and I'll say it (yet) again: unless
you have very stringent power requirement (or some other unusual
requirement, like very, very low noise), used (or even new-in-box,
previous generation excess inventory) OEM stuff is far superior to
any build-it-yourself rig you can come up with. So much so, in fact,
that we should really consider the reference recommendation for a ZFS
fileserver to be certain configs of brand-name hardware, and NOT try
to recommend other things to folks.
Unless you live somewhere with a very small used server market that is!
But, I hear there's this newfangled thingy, called some darned fool
thing like "the interanets" or some such, that lets you, you know,
*order* things from far away places using one of those funny PeeCee
dood-ads, and they like, *deliver* to your door.
And here I was, just getting used to all those nice things from the
Sears catalog. Gonna have to learn me a whole new thing again.
Damn kids.
<wink>
Of course, living in certain countries it's hard to get the hardware
through customs...
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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