[ale] Looking for a little server

[Warren Myers]

How many of these are you planning to sell? Not to rain on your parade or
anything, but if you're not expecting to do a pretty big volume, you're
probably going to want to look at your run-of-the-mill Dell or HP 1U boxes.

I know lots of companies that use SuperMicro and HP as their appliance
provider. If you're expecting to have some serious volume (like Barracuda,
for example), I'd strongly suggest you talk to one of the "big boys" to
handle your appliance hardware.

If you're expecting a small volume, pretty much the basic 1U boxes are all
about the same, so go for the one that seems the most supportable.

WMM

On Nov 19, 2007 1:58 PM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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