<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I can top-post back to myself, right? :)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have one private reply and I reached out to that vendor.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also put in a quote request at ixSystems (like 5 hours ago) and no response, that’s a bit disappointing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just going off Supermicro’s list of resellers, I narrowed it down to these vendors, curious if anyone has experience with them. I ruled out places that don’t have some kind of quick quote generator.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.siliconmechanics.com/c1246/rack-server-products.php" class="">https://www.siliconmechanics.com/c1246/rack-server-products.php</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.asacomputers.com/2U-Server.html" class="">http://www.asacomputers.com/2U-Server.html</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.broadberry.com/" class="">http://www.broadberry.com/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dell R530 was interesting, but their lead time is worse than I expected, so they’re at the bottom of the list. And their rack mounting stuff is about 2” too deep for our weird old cabinet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Charles</div><div class="">
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 26, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Charles Sprickman <<a href="mailto:spork@bway.net" class="">spork@bway.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">I’m looking for a Supermicro vendor that’s somewhere between the “shopping at 3 different stores to find chassis, RAM, drives, etc.” and full white-labelled servers. Like I pick a chassis/motherboard and the vendor deals with finding compatible RAM and any oddball stuff like the drive backplane for some small premium/markup. The last guy I knew that did this has been out of the business for at least 5 years (GCS).<br class=""><br class="">Failing that, after some really bad experiences with overblown IBM/Lenovo garbage, if I go with a server vendor, Dell feels like the least insane choice. Lenovo is really only for folks who are thrilled with long-term support contracts where “fixing” things is basically swapping out hardware until it works. Also screw IBM and their EFI that takes 15 minutes to boot. The HP server I have at home is a bit too proprietary. The few Dells I’ve dealt with seem to have a fairly minimal amount of bells and whistles and have been in service for ages. Any thoughts on their current lineup?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">Charles<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">talk mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:talk@lists.nycbug.org" class="">talk@lists.nycbug.org</a><br class="">http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>