From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 9:43: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B118D37B675 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13lCyI-0000SF-00; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:18:42 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:18:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rackmount Servers In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001016182641.05caad40@mail.Go2France.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Len Conrad wrote: > > 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. Well, but there are certain advantages to Dell using custom motherboards. The basic Poweredge servers are better than anything you can assemble yourself, because the moterboard is customized. Plus the addition of a built in hot-swap backplane (as opposed to ribbon cables) makes them difficult to beat. Pretty much all redundant power supplies are propietary because the ATX form factor isn't big enough to fit two redundant power suplies of any decent capacity. Beware though, many rendant power supplies out there are complete garbage. Besides, Dell offers three years warranty on their components standard, so why bother trying to replace something that is covered under warranty? Pretty much everything is redundant anyhow. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message