[CentOS] Best Motherboard
John Plemons
john at mavin.com
Thu May 15 21:06:53 UTC 2008
Oh and for the rest of you to think about, a Tyan system, with 8 dual
core CPU's, and 128 gig of Ram... Also New...
John
John R Pierce wrote:
> Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:
>> On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote:
>>
>>> About 2 years ago, I build a server
>> [...]
>>
>> What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with
>> products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper?
>>
>> I never heard of DIY server hardware market.
>>
>
> Well, there is always the category of home servers... in my case,
> these are usually handmedown PCs, old, too slow to be a modern
> desktop, but perfectly usefull as firewalls, DNS/mail/web servers,
> etc. My current home server is a 10 year old P2 450Mhz rock solid
> board. But, I'd never use something like this in a business where
> its mission critical.
>
> I, for one (an opinionated one at that:D) do NOT recommend homebrewing
> proper rackmount servers from raw parts... storage integration issues
> alone can break a project like that.
>
> there's a middle ground... folks like Intel and Tyan make 'server
> bases', or kit servers, which comes with the rack chassis, hotswap
> backplanes, disk drive trays, mainboard and power supply, you just
> supply the CPUs, RAM, disk drives, and any extra cards you need.
>
> 6 or so years ago I built up and deployed a pair of Intel SE7501WV2 2U
> kits in my development lab at work, with dual xeon 2.8ghz and 3GB
> ram. these machines have run flawlessly running RHEL/CentOS. My
> department had no capital budget, and we could get these kit servers
> on 'expense' money, then populate them with our 'misc' budget.
> fully configured these were way under 1/2 what we'd have paid for a
> comparable HP or Dell. This would be the equivalent system with
> today's chipset and CPUs,
> http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/platforms/SR1500-2500/index.htm
> (the SR2500AL). The SKU SR2500ALLXR (2U, mobo, 1 of 2 PSUs, and 5 x
> SATA/SAS 3.5" hotswap backplane) goes for $1300-1600 street prices
> (wow, just about what I paid for the SE7501WV2 6 years ago! hmmm, when
> I bought mine, the slimline CD was standard, now its optional, oh well)
>
> these Intel server kits are even setup so you can 'brand' them for VAR
> applications, they have downloads that let you put your own name on
> the BIOS startup and so forth. In fact, the SE7501 2U servers I have
> were branded by Sun when they initially reentered the x86 server
> market, as the SunFire V65x
>
> What you get with a brand name server (HP, Dell, etc) is a warranty
> and onsite support. This is critical to some deployments and sites,
> and fairly superfluous to others.
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