[ale] Looking for a little server

[Jeff Hubbs]

Robert -

Last year, I found that a 1U with dual PSses puts you into a big step 
increase price-wise over single-PS units.  I wound up going with a 
Supermicro SuperServer into which I dropped RAM, CPU, and disks that I 
sourced elsewhere.  Tyan and I think Asus also have similar offerings. 

My Supermicro has been working very, very nicely in colo but it had a 
marginal PS that had to be replaced first - box kept shutting off by 
itself - and getting a replacement was not trivial due to the need to 
match sizes exactly (in fact, I went make/model-exact because I didn't 
want to incur any screw-hole mismatches). 

- Jeff

Robert L. Harris wrote:
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> My company is looking to make an appliance we can send
> to customers they can plug into their network that will run a very light
> weight linux distro to run some custom apps for us.
>
> I am looking for a small, 1U or smaller server.  Dual hard drives would
> be prefered.  All the standards, USB, Networking, etc as well.  It
> doesn't have to be rack mount and dual power supplies would be preferred
> but not critical.  For the work we are doing and the customers we are
> working with, we expect to go in-expensive and replace a failed device
> once every two years or so and just plan to keep some cold spares at the
> office.
>
> Anyone have any experience with vendors which make something along this
> line?
>
> Robert
>
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> :wq!
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