From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 10:32: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8798237B671 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:32:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 43DBA328F; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:55:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E330328E; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:55:29 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:55:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Tom Samplonius Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rackmount Servers In-Reply-To: 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 > 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. Warranties aren't any good if you're down... the point is to buy stuff that will minimize needing to use the warranty at all. I personally believe that none of the major manufacturers build good enough equipment. I much prefer to buy and piece it together myself. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message