Where do you buy your cases, motherboards and such? Do you try to keep a
standard config as hardware goes of do you keep extras on hand?
I have played with the idea of building our own servers but go back and
forth on that one..
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From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: hardware company
That's why I build my own servers. Haven't had one fail in the 5 years
I've had the service up and running. I have retired a couple to become
game servers and they're still ticking away.
At 09:45 PM 2/15/2005, you wrote:
re: redundant power supplies.
I never understood why a manufacturer would have an option to use a single
power cord to connect to a power supply with two redundant power supplies
in
the same server. if someone trips over the single cord, as in the example
below, then both supplies go down.
why not have all servers with dual power supplies connected to seperate UPS
units so that if either the power supply fails, the UPS fails or the
circuit
to which the UPS is connected fails, the redundant power supply can take
over.
i know, many people would consider that kind of redundancy redundant, but
we
do not, too many strange thing have happened. i'd rather spend the money
on
prevention than waste a day "fixing" something that could have been
prevented while 50 angry office workers and untold numbers of customers are
screaming at me on the telephone and thru the doorway about the fact they
can't get the pictures that their grandkids sent them via e-mail.
Bruce Barnes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Traylor
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 21:24
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: hardware company
Dell. We have a sales rep, not that it's a big deal. I got a 10%
discount last time I bought some little thing.
The big deal is their service. It's nice to get a new hard drive air
mailed in four hours or less when one decides to die.
..And their dependability...we have been using the same 150 Dell
computers, more or less(desktops and servers), for four years with few
failures of anything but ~10 cpu fans becoming squeaky and ~5 power
supply fans. A couple of scsi drives in one of our raid systems have
been replaced without incident or noticeable downtime, and that's it.
Not counting the usual programmer/sysadmin induced system meltdowns!
:o) Like the guy who was walking behind the servers and tripped on
and pulled out one power cord from a raid with supposedly redundant
dual power, that corrupted the container and caused us a day of
downtime and lost work. Good times, good times.
:o)
Doug Traylor
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:03:23 -0500, Matrosity Tech Support
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yes, don't screw around pinching pennies with your revenue, get a dell.
Internet Relations wrote:
I'd 2nd that.
Dell.
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