I've used Soekris products for many years and used to have enormous
faith in them. I've only got two 6501-70s left in production and will be
phasing them out shortly. The one 5501-70 is happily running along but
no longer has the needed RAM and CPU to get the job done.
I only deployed a handful of 4801's but was happy with them. I loved the
4501 series and had many of these in production. One was at a client's
outside Chicago whose ISP was a WISP that didn't think lightning
arresters were necessary. The Ethernet cable from the roof was melted,
the case was burned, the board had a hole in it where ETH0, the LAN
switch was destroyed because the surge jumped through ETH1 as were two
PCs approximately 100' away via Ethernet. Yet the Soekris never went down.
Most installs have been replaced with various SuperMicro systems to get
the IPMI functionality. I've been thinking about testing the
QOTOM-q190G4-S02 for smaller environments. Until the SuperMicros, it's
been years since I've used systems with an actual keyboard.
Lee
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Lee F. Johnson III | StormForge Technologies
ljohn...@stormforge.net
On 4/20/2017 6:00 AM, soekris-tech-requ...@lists.soekris.com wrote:
I'll be leaving the list soon as I have recently retired my 6501-70 and I
can't imagine ever using it or Soekris again nor recommending them to
others. I appreciated all of the folks that have discussed the issues over
the years.
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