Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 04, 2003 04:41 AM
It's a desktop.
There are some fundamental differences between server hardware and off the shelf DIY components that you happened to stick in a rackmount case. Hot swap HDD. Hot swap redundant power supplies. Hot swap redundannt cooling. Hot swap Redundant NICs. Hot swap mirrored memory. PCI-X expansion slots. Redundant RAID controllers. Higher end models even support CPU sparing. Most of these features com standard on servers at prices lower than desktops were a few years ago.
You want a server with Linux on it? Most of the major OEM's are perfectly happy to sell you a server without an OS and/or ship some Linux CDs with the server for you to install yourself. Do yourself a favor and buy a real server instead of building a PC in a rackmount case.
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Re:almost perfect
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 04, 2003 04:41 AMThere are some fundamental differences between server hardware and off the shelf DIY components that you happened to stick in a rackmount case. Hot swap HDD. Hot swap redundant power supplies. Hot swap redundannt cooling. Hot swap Redundant NICs. Hot swap mirrored memory. PCI-X expansion slots. Redundant RAID controllers. Higher end models even support CPU sparing. Most of these features com standard on servers at prices lower than desktops were a few years ago.
You want a server with Linux on it? Most of the major OEM's are perfectly happy to sell you a server without an OS and/or ship some Linux CDs with the server for you to install yourself. Do yourself a favor and buy a real server instead of building a PC in a rackmount case.
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