[PLUG] 1u server advice..

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 09:33:47 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Re: penguin computing -- I like the company, and the issues we've had
> with our current penguin 1u are probably due to environmental problems
> (poor cooling at the colo).  My only hesitation is that it looks like
> the same hardware can be had from Dell for significantly less (there
> is about a $400 difference between the Altus 650 and a similarly
> configured PowerEdge SC1435 right now).
>
> Since neither company offers an OS I am comfortable with, I'll be
> reinstalling on my own anyway. (And probably buying the disk(s) from
> newegg, to save another couple hundred.)  I would sleep better buying
> from penguin computing though :)
>
> > You will want dual power supplies, both for capacity and for
> > redundancy.  Another reason not to do this yourself, the vendor has
> > already done all the power consumption calculations for ALL the possible
> > configurations.
>
> Very good point...
>
> --Rogan
> _______________________________________________
>

I have a Dell SC1425 and its been super rock solid for a couple years now.
I've got 1 dual core xeon in it right now but it supports another dual core
proc as well if I ever decide to upgrade. It was cheep at



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