Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 07:51:10 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq ProLiant systems -- problems? Message-ID: <1486.870846670@critter.dk.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Aug 1997 20:25:28 EDT." <199708060025.UAA20586@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <199708060025.UAA20586@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write
s:
>My group is about to spend a substantial amount of money on some new
>servers, and the Compaq ProLiant 2500 (#?) has been recommended to
>us. These machines will, of course, run FreeBSD 2.2. Does anyone out
>there have experience with these machines, and if so did you encounter
>any problems that would keep us from being able to use them in
>``mission-critical'' applications (e.g., the Lab-wide mail, news, DNS,
>print, and Kerberos servers)?
>
>-GAWollman
In general I would avoid the Compaq machines, for several reasons:
1. Everything in them is very proprietry, the frames you mount your
disks in, the SCSI controllers, you name it.
2. They are overpriced.
3. Due to #1, you're stuck with compaq support/service, and over
here that amounts to "It had a RAM error, so we changed the
motherboard & the SCSI controller. That will be $3000 thankyou!"
--
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http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox.
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Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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