[Gllug] Recommendations for servers

[John Hearns]

On 24 November 2010 18:45, j.roberts <j.roberts at stabilys.com> wrote:
> On 24/11/10 18:04, - Tethys wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:55 PM, j.roberts<j.roberts at stabilys.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>> https://secure.dnuk.com/store/servers.php
>>>
>>> I do find those very expensive per spec.
>>
>> Maybe so. But they're well made, high quality machines, with great
>> support to back them up. Anything you saved by buying a cheaper
>> machine would be dwarfed by the amount lost faffing around when
>> something breaks. Like Alain, I have no connection with the company,
>> other than being a satisfied customer.
>
> I think we will all have to agree to differ. I am by no means knocking
> the DNUK boxes; for end users, having real and dedicated Linux support
> and driver support is valuable. It may be essential in other
> applications as well.
>
> However these DNUK boxes use off-the-shelf ASUS and/or Supermicro
> motherboards of medium quality, together with far-east casework just
> like all the rest. AFAICS DNUK do not offer any better warranty or
> on-site service than HP or Dell.

Can't comment on Asus, but Supermicro "of medium quality" - no.
I'm speaking as someone who:

a) has constructed several large Supermicro compute clusters
b) manages SGI compute clusters - which funnily enough use, you
guessed it, Supermicro motherboards

I've never seen any real difference in quality between Supermicro and
Dell/HP/Sun - don;t be taken in by the "Tier 1" versus "Tier 2" hype.
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