Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On February 22, 2008, 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. > 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. Actually I can confirm that running on in-house build hardware with a talented technitian assembling it - we had virtually 0 failure rate in comparison to big brands (we've tried most of them). Price difference is around 10% for similar machines but what we have is service on-site (we're in remote location), specs according to what OS of choice "prefers" and accessible "replacement farm" - we swap parts between machines. Moreso RedHat (our OS vendor) blanket-certifies all Intel-based HW with it's OS. Which from my understanding (and experience) means - if your server is built from Intel components - you're certified automatically so building in-house pays of in every aspect - we get certified systems, we get reliable systems, we get systems we want. In summary: if you have smart guy (or you are smart guy) who is assembling your servers - you can get certified hardware for comparable price with outstanding components. -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20080222/c8d56b15/attachment.pgp>