Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Tom Brown wrote: [...] > Well, I can tell you that piecing together your own servers does not > work well. Even with an Asus mobo. Our home grown file servers are > failing. I am not the one who put them together and was not the one who > decided to build them from scratch. They will be replaced by Dell > PowerEdge SC1435 servers. > [...] That depends entirely on the skill of the person building them. Did you think that Dell servers sprang full formed from the forehead of Athena? A skilled technician can spec and assemble a reliable high end server class machine from parts for a fraction of the cost of a comparable Dell machine. Dell's are notoriously overpriced once you get beyond their entry level machines. An unskilled technician couldn't successfully spec and assemble even a reliable office desktop class machine (and they would spend more than buying an off-the-shelf machine in that class anyway). -- Benjamin Franz Before you get too proud of how fast you are making progress, be sure it is in the correct direction.