Fedora on servers
Bill Gradwohl
bill at ycc.com
Thu Dec 23 13:54:40 UTC 2004
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>17??? Wow.. WHat sort of box is that? 4U or just normal white boxes?
>Those must be Maxtor Drives.
>
>
Hitachi. Waited 4 months to get them. Seagate now has them too, at least
in theory. Getting your hands on those large drives is a different
matter. The box is a rack mount 5U 24 tray backplane unit with 4
redundant Power Supplies from www.servercase.com.
>BTW, does anyone has any recommendation on Mainboards? Experience with
>TYAN mainboards?
>
Tried TYAN - don't like them. I'm setting up a dual cpu TYAN mainboard
with 1 Gig of RAM on FC3 now to give to my mother-in-law as an email/web
surfing box. Its not good enough for anything else. ASUS has been rock
solid for over 10 years.
> I read a review on (somewhere) on the tyan mainboard
>and it's 2 on-board GIG ethernet.
>
ASUS has them too.
Word of warning. Not everything ASUS makes is worth buying. Stay away
from the "Deluxe" versions of anything. Typically consumer grade kitsch
with too many bells and whistles and a BIOS that's off in left field.
All we spec are servers, so we could care less about sound, USB, onboard
bogus RAID, and high performance video. I know you've been on this list
a long time, so you know that those are the areas folks have the most
trouble with. If we spec a board that happens to have any feature we
don't want (USB typically), we turn it off via the BIOS. That's why I
want a BIOS that I can work with and I can't get that from the likes of
DELL, HP, etc.
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