We have purchased systems through Dell and Servers Direct. I've been
reasonably happy with Servers Direct, and they will be my default
choice for the next order -- though I'll probably call Silicon
Mechanics too. I am happy with the Supermicro hardware.
-- David
On Jul 15, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Ryan Smith wrote:
Thanks for all the great feedback. Jeff, were looking to get 2
racks of 1-u
s (80 servers) Were having problems with our 2 current mfgrs b.c we
cant
get them on the phone in a timely manner and the turn around time on
really
simple stuff is taking months. We will probably go with Silicon
Mechanics
unless someone has other suggestions. Thanks again everyone.
-Ryan
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Chris Collins
<ch...@scoutlabs.com> wrote:
I had relatively good luck with HP but incredibly bad times with
Dell.
Numerous companies I have worked for have had dell and nothing but
trouble
to go with it:
- Machines that set on fire
- Sata raid controllers that use a mux and give poor IO (tech
support was
non existent).
- Recent HW blowup took almost a month to replace when it was
supposedly
part of a next day service contract.
- Problems with onboard scsi that loose data.
- Lan controllers that would not function with some of the most
common
network switches
Guess I don't have anything good to say about them.
On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
I have used Dell, Silicon Mechanics and HP.
I had very good results with Dell and Silicon Mechanics.
Results with HP were marginal, but that was for database machines
with
veritas file systems running on EMC hardware. I will avoid that
sort of
machine like the plague in the future due to high cost and LooooooNG
install
cycle.
I evaluated Sun, but was never able to justify them since the late
90's in
spite of my sentimental attachments to their product (I bought my
first
Sun
in 1984).
I have used various off-brand machines with horrifically bad
results.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ryan Smith <ryan.justin.sm...@gmail.com
wrote:
Kris,
We are using EC2 already, I need information on a hardware mfgr
for a
*real-life* cluster now, thanks. :)
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Kris Jirapinyo
<kris.jirapi...@biz360.com>wrote:
Why don't you try Amazon EC2? :)
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Ryan Smith <
ryan.justin.sm...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm having problems dealing with my server mfgr atm. Is there a
good
mfgr
to go with?
Any advice is helpful, thanks.
-Ryan
--
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