Rack Mount Servers

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, at 11:00am, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> And as much as I used to hate Compaq[1] hardware, I recently had the
> opportunity to use the new Proliant rackmount servers, and I really liked
> them a lot.  Totally changed my opinion of Compaq's hardware.

  The Proliant line has some of the most solidly built hardware I've ever
encountered.  Reminds me of old-school DEC stuff -- thick steel, weighs a
ton, you can drop it and the only danger would be cracking the floor.  Same
for the logic and disks.  Top quality parts and well engineered.

  My beef with Compaq has always been that they are the king of gratuitous
incompatibility.  If it says "Compaq" on it, everything from the motherboard
to the screws holding the case together will be completely unlike anything
else seen on this Earth.

  It tends to be overpriced, too, but they are hardly unique in that.  :)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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