Les Mikesell wrote:
On 2/3/2011 12:38 PM, Chuck Munro wrote:
Less than $500 for a Supermicro box? Holy crap, Batman!
I'm using one of their motherboards (X8DAL-3) in a home-brew configuration, which has turned out to be somewhat less expensive than a factory-built Supermicro, but still not cheap. I'll say one thing for
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If you are building your own stuff, I kind of like trayless hot-swap sata bays. And if you care more about size and power than speed and capacity, you can get them for laptop size drives too.
Trayless is nice. All the sleds mostly use *different* screws. The ones that drive me crazy are the Penguin boxes we have, that use screws no one else uses... *and* we have a good number that came with only one or two drives (for use in clusters)....
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