[nycbug-talk] Server hardware

[Francisco Reyes]

Isaac Levy writes:

> If you end up putting together some boxes by choosing your own  
> components, I'll reccomend my preferred vendor- General Computer and  
> Service, <lee at gcserve.com> or <sales at gcserve.com>.  They're in  
> midtown, they deliver in Manhattan, and they've been around in the  
> NYC*BUG scene since the beginning

Another vote for GCS.
Ever since George recommended them I have been buying all my desktops for 
them, although I have not bought any servers from them yet.
 

> diligence on whatever components they sell.  They sell a lot of  
> Supermicro these days, although my usual with them are high-density  
> 1u machines comprised of a Tyan mboard in a Chenbro case (if you  
> contact them and want similar, ask Lee for the 'ike 1u special'

What are the dimensions on those?
At work we have been getting Racklogic machines, but I dislike that they are 
front-wired (ethernet, video and keyboard in the front). I am sure that 
front-wired sounds like a great idea, but it's messy and just makes it 
difficult to pull machines out... unless you wired everything nice and 
neatly (which my pre-decessor did not do). 

The only reason I have not convinced the decision maker to switch off 
Racklogic is that the machines are pretty small. They are same width and 
height, but about half the lenght of a regular 1U.


> you have a working RAID card, it really works with FreeBSD-

What RAID cards you using these days?
I have been standarizing in 3Ware.