[Gllug] OT: 1U rackmount suppliers

[Jim Bailey]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:25:52AM +0000, David Irvine wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:09, John Edwards wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:36:50PM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > > David Irvine wrote:
> > >> Hi Guys
> > >> 
> > >> Anybody got any experience of buying 1U systems? I'm looking to buy a
> > >> 1u, Supermicro do a couple of cracking systems, but they only sell
> > >> through boston in the uk, which don't even have a working website. 
> > 
> > Even if it did work they don't put the prices up there, but are willing 
> > to talk to people on the phone. Prices are quite good for the Supermicro 
> > kit but they quote 5-10 days to deliver. 
> > 
> > > In addition any recommendations for sourcing 1/2u cases.
> > > 
> > > I have a load of PCs that I would like to rack sensibly
> > 
> > Acme in Park Royal do a wide range of rack mount cases:
> >     http://www.acme-technology.co.uk/
> 
> I've used 3U acme cases with some athlon kit a while ago, the cases are
> quite good, fairly well laid out, but certainly with dual athlon chips
> you need to make sure you put in an extra high capacity fan at the back
> else airflow is a bit pants. Plenty of air vents though.

We use dozen of U2 Acme boxes at work Dual Athlon Diskless nodes they
run at 100% CPU load 24/7 with their entire file system loaded into
memory via NFS.  We run fans on the northbridge as well as push and pull
fans at the front and rear of the box.

Once we have burnt the components in on a test bench for a few days we
can confidently move them to the production environment.

Peace Jim

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