In a message dated: 10 Aug 2002 15:50:21 EDT
Ed Robbins said:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm about to help a local ISP update their NOC and I'm in need of some
>rack mount servers. Anyone in the group have a preferred supplier
>and/or comments/experience with particular brands/models...
I'm a big fan of HP's lpX000r series, but you'll pay for the HP name,
and their quality engineering, and fantastic tech support, which is
why I really like them :)
The lp1000r is a 1u rackmount server which is/can be a fully SCSI
based system, will gladly run Linux, I've installed both RH and Debian
on them. They take upto 3 hot swappable drives (80GBs last time I
played with them, they may be upto 160s by now.) Dual CPU capable,
blah, blah, blah.
Angstrom Computing in Boston is another place I've heard a lot about.
Their schtick is AMD based servers. I saw them at LWCE in February,
and was pretty impressed with what I saw.
Also local (Canton, MA?) is Network Engines who used to be the
manufacturer of the VA Linux Systems 1u rackmount way back.
I've recently been playing with their 1u systems:
PIII 850Mhz
4 80Gb IDE drives
3 eepro100 NICs (PXE capable)
There is *no* CD-Rom or floppy on these things which I find totally
cool, since I can PXE boot them and install whatever I like on them.
The systems I'm playing with I don't think are made any more, since
both CPU and drive technology has drastically increased. I know we
have systems in the lab with 160GB drives, and we're expecting 250GB
drive systems real soon now.
Hope that helps!
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Seeya,
Paul
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