From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 9:31:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413FA37B66D for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 20B036A901 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:31:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com [212.73.210.79] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id AE807463005A; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:36:16 +0200 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001016182641.05caad40@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:31:45 +0200 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: Rackmount Servers In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001016112218.04c9a110@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I wouldn't consider either Dell or Compaq propietary hardware, >especially Dell. Dell is just a system assembler, they don't make any >components themselves. yes, but can you just slip out a Dell p/s or mobo and replace it with another non-Dell p/s or "standard" Asus/Abit ATX mobo. That's what I mean by "proprietary". If I have to use Dell-brand mobo's, it's proprietary. > > Buy 1U and 2U empty cases, and build your own servers and appliances > > from quality components. > > Most 1U cases don't allow redundant power supplies. nope, haven't found one here. > Power supply failures are either the number 1 or number 2 source > of system failures. yep, in fact you can't really spend too much on the original p/s, seeing what one failure is going to cost. 150K hours MTBF is what some p/s mfrs like PC Power Cooling quote. Very hard to get our local compenents guy to quote MTBF. I think "Fortron" is known to be industrial, rather than consumer, quality p/s. http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message