I've purchased a number of systems (a dozen or so) from avadirect. http://www.avadirect.com Their prices are excellent, hardware is solid quality, their service is median. This is a discount shop, so don't expect lightening support. But you can buy three fast AVA systems of top-notch quality for the price of a single HP or Sun server with "enterprise support". Those sound like pretty good numbers if you are technically inclined. I especially like their 1U Tyan-based 1U Opterons with 10k SCSI drives - almost all of the systems I've purchased from them have been in this configuration and all of these have worked very well for me. I have two right now being torture tested in the other room. Quad-core Opterons, 4 GB ECC RAM, dual 10k SCSI, great DB servers - sweet! I like to buy two identical drives with the storage I need, and use Linux kernel software RAID 1. This gives me good performance, redundancy, and compatability that doesn't tie me to a specific chipset or RAID card. There is room for 4 bays on the front, so I can add two more drives later if it's needed. My O/S of choice is CentOS 4. http://www.centos.org The only problem I've had with them is that I bought a couple of SuperMicro 1U systems in a similar configuration and had issues, but so far, they've been resolved equitably. -Ben PS: No, I don't work for them in any way. On Wednesday 07 March 2007, snacktime wrote: > Any recommendations for vendors that can build custom servers? > Specifically opteron based with scsi raid. > > Chris > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. >
