[geeks] 1u rack servers.

[Will Mc Donald]

I noticed on The Reg the other day that HP have cut the prices of their 1U
rackmount boxes. (Just noticed, they're also doing buy 5 get one free.)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17466.html

http://netserver.hp.com/netserver/

Your best bet might be to phone sales and say we need X amount of 1U servers
with this spec, give me a quote. Do this for them all and see who gives the
best price/performance deal after playing them off against each other for as
long as you can be bothered.

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Harrison" <harrison at timharrison.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: [geeks] 1u rack servers.


>
> Hey folks.
>
> Question:  who do you buy 1u rack servers from (that's not Sun,
> unfortunately -- damned owner of the company is afraid of change, and
> won't let us buy anything that doesn't run FreeBSD)?
>
> I've dealt with California PC Products, but they've been no end of
> trouble.  SAG Electronics is overpriced, and the big Linux guys have
> ridiculous pricing as well.
>
> Thoughts?  Links?  Options?  Ideas?
>
> Free machines? ;)
>
> --