Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> Actually, we really like Dell. The servers that died are four or five > years old, and were only under a now-expired warranty. All > had the same error (E171F PCIE fatal error B0 D3 F0), which indicates a > pci-x error, which is weird. And that all of them failed within a week > suggests, to me

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:49 PM, wrote: >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out >> IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly >> there's an

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 01:52:37 PM aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > If all you ned are plain old servers, check Aberdeen. They repackage > SuperMicro and have great support. I'd just PM'd a message to OP with this message. We have a slew of SuperMicros and they have been very stable and robust. Al

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:49 PM, wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's > died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out > IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly > there's another $800 for a "system

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread aly . khimji
Pierce Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org To: centos@centos.org ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] a hardware question Sent: May 17, 2011 4:47 PM On 05/17/11 12:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's > died

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/17/11 12:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out >> IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly >> ther

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread aurfalien
On May 17, 2011, at 12:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE > 1950's > died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking > out > IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly > there's anothe

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 05/17/11 12:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's > died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out > IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly > there's another $800 for a "sys

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> Brunner, Brian T. wrote: >> > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: >> >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our >> >> Dell PE 1950's >> >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our > >> Dell PE 1950's > >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking > >> out I

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: >> We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our >> Dell PE 1950's >> died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking >> out IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and >> suddenly there's an

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our > Dell PE 1950's > died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking > out IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and > suddenly there's another $800 for a "system common