In some mail from Kit Halsted, sie said:
[...]
> >To contrast the average "white box" PC server with an ancient SS20
> >sitting to my left, the SS20 has wires for power supply to motherboard,
> >cd-rom & floppy (both optional) and the speaker. Well, that's all
> >I can see.
>
> My SS4 has the above, as well as a very short SCA cable for the HD, a
> data cable for the floppy, & a cable for the LED on the case.

Right, but it's engineered in such a way that none of the cables make a
nuisance out of themselves or obstruct your access to any part of it.

> >If I open up my pc firewall, I see daisy chain ribbon cable
> >to the floppy, cd-rom and hard drive, cables from the front panel to
> >the motherboard, power supply and power to each of the above things with
> >ribbon cable. In short, the internals of a PC are a mess. This makes
> >air flow less uniform and harder to get right as well as making any
> >sort of maintenaince a nightmare when it comes to wading through the
> >jungle of wires.
>
> Having spent a good chunk of Thursday wrestling with cables for (2)
> Ultra2 hard drives, (1) ATAPI CD, (1) floppy, (1) IDE HD, & (1) SCSI
> tape drive in a 3U enclosure, I can definitely see your point. I'm
> not convinced it's a show-stopper, but cable routing is not my friend.

I'm not saying it is a show-stopper, merely pointing out that this is
what I consider to be a result of buying a "better quality" product.
The "white-box" PC has no real engineering behind it other than to get
something out the door which "fits the description". While the vendor
issued 1RU things might cost more and in general "have issues", I'd
like to think (maybe pretend :) that their internal layout is a result
of better design engineering.

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