Rackmount Or Tower?
Jun 23, 2007
instead of buying a rackmount that holds 16 hard drives that is about 1000$ for the case + power supply.
why not just buy a tower that might cost you $400 + PSU and use that?
my question is wouldnt it be cheaper for me to buy a tower instead of rackmounts if my majority is in space , for example my tower that costed me about $99 holds 12 hard drive bays (this is in my desktop house) , while my 3u rackmount holds 16 hard drives but it was $1000 + PSU included.
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Nov 12, 2008
I am trying to put together a 1U server, and this is the first time I've had to deal with the space constraints of a rackmount server.
I am toying with a RAID 10 setup, which requires 4 drives, so I am looking at 2.5" enterprise drives so that I can fit 4 into a 1U rack. The problem is I was on newegg and don't see any cases with 2.5" bays. Are there kits that convert 3.5" bays to 2x2.5" or something of this nature? Furthermore, I see here:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136260
that the 2.5" drive is inside a 3.5" brick. Can this be taken out of the mount? I don't see the point in paying extra for a 2.5" drive that only fits in a 3.5" slot.
I have read that in a 4-drive array, RAID 10 outperforms RAID 5. This seems counterintuitive to me because in RAID 5 there is essentially striping across 3 drives, and then parity on the 4th, whereas in 10, you would only have striping across 2 drives. Is this just because of the calculations involved in generating the parity?
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May 10, 2007
2-3 months ago I ordered 2 machines to test them out. build and ship time was told a week. ok thats fair.
two weeks go by nothing.
third week get a hold of someone due to a company "move" and my sales guy being let go my order got lost somewhere. was assured it would be shipped out on monday overnight.
Tuesday rolls around no equipment. can't get ahold of anybody.
Week passes no word. I initiate a charge back. charge back starts its motion.
month later my charge back is reversed? puzzled. Geta hold of clark at RMM. was promised up and down that he would take care of it and call me on monday.
Few days pass. no word... So I get a hold of him on IM. he's still looking into it/talking to the bank?
another week or two passes. I contact clark the other day. says he has a conference and a meeting with the bank.. sure great whatever.
To this day still no response. So what i'm out 1425? i'm going to go backto my bank again and charge back yet again or send them after RMM.
Aparently the chargeback never went through because surprise surprise RMM's bank account was zero'd out. i.e no funds to take.
RMM. I'm tired of waiting and i'm tired of the lies. Just take care of it, I hav avoided this and I will continue to tell people why its not a good idea to use your company when people ask for hardware venders and requests.
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Mar 24, 2008
if your able to have a GPU on a rackmount server?
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May 31, 2007
Just have 2 questions:
Where is the cheapest place to get rackmountable 1u or 2u cases in the UK?
What's the best mechanism of processor cooling which will fit into one of those cases?
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Feb 20, 2007
to buy some servers ( I am at full capacity) and I was wondering if RackmountMicro.com is a good place to buy equipment? I used to buy from Dell, but i have had some issues and i think that their servers are pricey.
Any good words on RackmountMicro? to get 10 Dual Core 6600.
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Apr 25, 2007
Can anyone recommend an affordable antivirus hardware appliance that can be put in-line between a physical machine acting as a mail server and the switch? I need it only to filter on ONE machine so it would not have to be extremely fast. Spam filtering would be a plus as well. Any recommendations? I am looking for something plug and play.
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Apr 19, 2008
Just wondering if anyone knows of a datacenter or a co-lo host who provides Colocation for Tower Servers, within the London area?
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Feb 23, 2007
I have a tower case just under 440mm in height and was wondering where in the UK this could be colo'd?
It's basically a standard tower case you get with PCs bought from places like PC World these days. I just don't want it going to waste under my desk, so was hoping it could be colo'd somewhere.
It's a P4 3.0GHz, 1gB RAM and 200gB HDD PC, so could make good use of it really.
Now I have to say from the kick off that IRC must be allowed by the colo provider.
how I can make use of this wasted box?
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Mar 29, 2008
idea on cost(not sure if offers are allowed here?) for tower colocating, 4U HP ML110 Intel Dual Core & 2 x Sata
Also any advice on good locations. I had been looking at Netrino but there seems to be a bad thread about them now
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Jul 18, 2007
With all the price hikes in London, are there any companies still offering sustainable pricing on tower colocation?
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Dec 22, 2007
I'm building a HDD rack tower because I'm sick of DVDs and external USB drives. I plan on using it as a private FTP and file storage.
I got me a Lian Li PC-V2100A Plus II which can hold up to 19 3.5" drives and I plan to feed it with 1TB SATA HDDs.
The problem is that I neither have an idea which mainboard I should use nor if there's even a power supply that can support this many drives.
Performance doesn't matter to me I'm all about space, I'll probably throw in some old P4 and 1gig RAM.
I was thinking about a Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W PSU but I still don't have an idea which mainboard I should settle with.
Preferably one with 6+ SATA connectors so that I don't have to buy too many controllers.
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Nov 12, 2007
We`re running a datacenter in Iran, So we require about 1000 1U and 2U rackmount servers.
Do you know any great rackmount seller in Europe or Asia?
* Asia is prefered because of shipping costs.
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Jul 19, 2007
co-location of a mini tower PC I have that hosts a couple of websites. I live in Redmond, WA so anywhere near there or down in Seattle will be fine. Bandwidth wise I only need about 500GB per month. anything fancy just a secure facility with power and network connection.
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Nov 5, 2007
colo a mid-tower server in Central/ Eastern Iowa or Southeast Minnesota.
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Feb 28, 2007
since most dedicated server are just desktop pc. i was wondering what would be a great motherboard and tower for home made server for my own use or possible for colo? perfer enought RAM slot for up to 8gig and onboard SATA RAID controller
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