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, 2008-02-22 at 11:28 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: > 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). > I'd have to agree that you need to know what you are doing and that you don't have to spend the "Dell" kind of money to get something rock solid. I have a gateway/firewall I built for peanuts about 10 years ago on a 486 that is still humming a long and I never touch it. I also have a generically pieced together application server that I built about 5 years ago for next to nothing that I hardly every touch except for application updates. Both of these are routinely up for over 365 days. I've come to realize that a great number of problems you might think are software related can in fact be a problem of incompatible or somewhat dysfunctional hardware.