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From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-hw@epcdirect.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: CCIS RC-0222 Rack Chassis ... experiences?
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We have a few 12 Bay Chenbro chassis with dual Xeons in running
24x7 here, and no issues. The build quality isnt fantastic, but
the price isnt either. If you are going the P4 or Xeon route, I
would use a Supermicro case and board personally, and probably 
go for Chenbro or similar for AMD. 

Lawrence Farr
EPC Direct Limited  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Marc 
> G. Fournier
> Sent: 30 June 2004 17:02
> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
> Subject: CCIS RC-0222 Rack Chassis ... experiences?
> 
> 
> First off, thanks to all for their experiences between 
> Seagate and Hitachi 
> ... they were invaluable ...
> 
> Right now, we're looking at a Chenbro Dual 500W chassis for 
> the new server 
> ... on a whim, I checked with CCIS about their RC-0222 chassis, since 
> there were the comments about the Chenbro backplane and such 
> ... the cost 
> comes out to be about $400 more for the CCIS chassis, but am 
> wondering 
> whether anyone here has had experiences with that chassis?  
> Is it $400 
> well spent?  Or does it make no difference, Chenbro is just as good?
> 
> Thanks ...
> 
> ----
> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services 
> (http://www.hub.org)
> Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy             
>  ICQ: 7615664
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