On Monday 14 July 2008, Larry Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 15:11 -0400, steve szmidt wrote:
> > I always use/recommend SuperMicro as one of the most reliable h/w
> > available. Every system we ship is from them. Can't really recall one
> > failing in over ten years. Though we usually don't manage them directly.
>
> You say every system you ship... You sell servers? Feel free to catch
> me off line if you do. I used to build systems and we had a lot of
> good luck with ASUS. I've heard SuperMicro has a pretty good name but
> haven't personally used them. I'd just as soon as build them but our
> company would rather have someone assemble them so that they can rely on
> them to swap units out etc. (and they could outsource my job without
> being stuck supporting the systems) We will be looking to probably boot
> these via PXE and be running from a ram disk. They will process some
> audio streams and send the output to a SAN via the second NIC. So they
> won't need any drives and should be pretty static sitting in their
> racks... We should be able to do this relatively inexpensively.
Thanks for the offer! However we only build custom systems, at a hefty price.
I just wanted to point out Supermicro as a 1st class server.
ASUS are very good but not intended to compete in a super server class.
--Steve Szmidt
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