Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:43:40 -0400 (EDT) From: vogelke+unix@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days? Message-ID: <20090609024340.5F7AABED8@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <7fc6c27a0906081056u161731c6m298efcf2aa471d38@mail.gmail.com> (message from ericr on Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:56:35 -0600)
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>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:56:35 -0600, >> ericr <erobison@gmail.com> said: E> Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had E> good luck with them? I've always had good luck with Dell, especially the GX-260s. I've used them for file-servers handling over 100 Samba connections at a time, and (considering they're just workstations) they work fine. E> We've used SuperMicro's in the past, and they've been wildly variable. E> Some of them have run ok for years, some died within weeks, and kept dying E> no matter what parts we put in. We have three SuperMicro blade servers. One's worked like a champ, and the other two died. The vendor we used tanked, so no warranty support. I got two IBM X3400 boxes to replace the SuperMicros; the drives were OK, so I got empty enclosures plus some rails, stuffed the drives in, and installed FreeBSD-7.1. My only problem so far has been a BIOS issue, but IBM site-support has been great. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Golfer: "Do you think I can get there with a 5-iron? Caddy: "Eventually."
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