>> John R Pierce wrote:
J> The SuperMicro Intel stuff seems just fine. I'd be more leary of AMD.
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:39:06 -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx said:
M> We've had a number of servers fail, and it *seems* to be related to the
M> motherboard. In fact, I just got the pass, and asked the secretary to
M> call Fed Ex today to ship another one back to the vendor.
Second that. We bought three servers, and two failed due to motherboard
problems. A third one has performed beautifully for around 5 years.
We had warranty support, but not directly from SuperMicro. The reseller
didn't return our calls, and after a short time their phone was disconnected
because they went bankrupt. No more warranty for us, too bad, so sad.
Another thing to consider is the BIOS software; it was old when we bought
the server, too old to handle drives > 1Tb 18 months after said drives
had hit the market.
I'd also second the "don't buy Sun/Oracle" recommendation. Oracle isn't
interested in anything but Fortune 50 business, and it shows.
--
Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company
Linus Torvalds surfs the web using nothing but netcat.
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