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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1434 - Release Date: 5/15/2008 7:24 AM > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080515/db845b51/attachment-0004.html>