[TriLUG] 1u rack server

Ed Anderson nilbus at nilbus.com
Fri Feb 6 14:55:52 EST 2004


I love intrex, but my experience has been the same way.
I've set up 2 boxes from scratch from there.  Overall,
An incorrectly mounted heatsink, causing the CPU to over heat,
two bad motherboards, and a bad stick of ram.

Ed

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Magnus Hedemark wrote:

> On 6 Feb 2004, Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> > Intrex would also be a good source. With that number you could simply
> > point to the sources you want for the HW and let them put it together
> > and burn it in for you - maybe even load an initial image on each
> > machine.
> 
> Fair warning;  I've had a very high and early failure rate with 
> Intrex-built systems.
> 
> As for the Dells, I've had compatibility issues with Linux (recently) as 
> they use Broadcom GigE chipsets in many of their servers.  I've had much 
> better luck (recently) with IBM.
> 
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