IF you really want the coolest of toys then I must agree on the 1U's from SuperMicro. I got to peek at them today when I put the dual 1ghz P3's and ram in them. Of course you're looking at about $2000 for the nice case with the dual proc board (no processors), onboard SCSI, floppy, CD-rom. Those were oh so sweet. Just get your ECC ram, procs, and ever so fast, hot swappin' SCA drives and you're flying high. And... I still prefer orange to black :-) > You should really check out SuperMicro's 1u systems. There not quite as > cool in terms of space use but they are much nicer systems. They are > certainly servers though. They also use the laptop style cdrom and > floppy drive. The IDE version has two external 3.5" bays. They have like > 4 diffrent models from dinky ide > single cpu intel machines to dual cpu scsi160 systems that all fit in a 1u > rackmount case. We have 4 of them at work now and they are just so > cool. The 6010H even has onboard dual intel server nics and a 64bit (full > sized!) expansion slot. > > www.supermicro.com >
