yeah that c2000 failure was a ripoff!!
On 9/25/20 8:06 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Rotating components like fans and hard drives are what fails. And
batteries, look out for RAID controllers with battery backed write
cache. Assuming you bought a used several generations old server off
lease, by the time the battery dies, you probably can’t buy a
replacement. Oh, and power supplies seem to fail.
So fanless is good, SSD is good. I don’t know about latest
generation, but traditionally the HP/Compaq DL series rackmount
servers are built like tanks, and things like redundant hot swap fans
can mitigate the problem with fans failing. Be sure to stock a few
spare fan modules and power supplies.
IMHO if you are looking for a rackmount server, 2U is more reliable
than 1U. Things like fans and power supplies and heatsinks are
compromised to fit into the 1U height. Components in a 2U chassis can
be a lot more robust.
Most of the HP and Dell servers will be very deep, and will need to go
in a cabinet or 4 post rack. There are solutions for mounting a deep
server in a 2 post rack but they are ugly. If you want regular
rackmount, Supermicro has a few short depth chassis servers that can
be mounted without a rail kit. I haven’t had any failure problems
with Supermicro except a couple with ATOM C2000 LPC clock failures
after a couple years and that was Intel’s fault. They aren’t the
mechanical thing of beauty inside though that a DL380 is, the
mechanical design is just good enough.
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown
*Sent:* Friday, September 25, 2020 9:34 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] servers
Like something that is not so long that I have to put in a cabinet.
Regular rack mount would be nice,
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On Sep 25, 2020, at 8:33 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
Some windows, some Linux. 48vdc would be nice. Not lots of hp.
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On Sep 25, 2020, at 8:16 PM, Robert <i...@avantwireless.com
<mailto:i...@avantwireless.com>> wrote:
Unless you need a lot of HP, fanless, like atoms, driven off
of a DC power supply. What OS?
On 9/25/20 6:08 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>
wrote:
I need to put in some servers. I want to go durable.
Last a long time.
Thinking blade servers.
Email, DNS etc, Perhaps in the future DHCP. Other things
an ISP uses.
Suggestions? I like the idea of hot swap etc. I realize
VM and Hyper V, all kinds of virtualization makes life easy.
But irrespective, I want bare metal reliability.
Then perhaps NAS/SAN on top of it.
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