From: Adam (suckmy-balls.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2005 - 18:48:28 CST

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 06:30:51PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> It is not an extreme case. If one sells this one will buy it; and
> infinitely worse, rely on it.

Which has nothing to do with anything. Just because someone sells
something bad that has 4 drives in it, doesn't mean everything with 4
drives in it is bad.

> There are no good 1U white box chassis simply because the chassis
> designers have to generalize everything due to multiple boards that can
> go in it. All boards have different heat signatures and there is no
> such thing as one size fits all in this scenario. The CPUs alone have
> to dissipate 100W+ each; do the math.

Are you kidding me? Dell uses different mobos and cases all the time,
and they are generalized. They do not have special cases designed for
special motherboards, they stick off the shelf components together with
a crappy custom BIOS and offer support for it.

> As usual you sprout horseshit because you obviously have the time to
> put together a white box with nice components that didn't make the cut
> for the tier 1 vendors. You are right, best of worst worlds.

Yes, that's right. My CPU and RAM and motherboard and power supply were
specifically turned down by the mighty dell because they aren't custom
made for each other. I didn't build anything, I buy servers already
built and tested, by vendors I know are competant, not just vendors who
are big and with throw any shit together for dumbasses who like to pay
for dell stickers.

Adam

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