[wplug] non dell system builders

Patrick Wagstrom pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Mar 15 08:31:29 EST 2007


Brandon Poyner wrote:
> At work we've noticed that the major OEMs like IBM, Dell, and HP are
> making a shift and assuming that if you're buying a rack mount server
> that you're going to be using either a JBOD or some form of network
> attached storage.  For the most part they are assuming that the
> internal drives are for the OS only.  It's not that you can't buy a
> rack mount server with plenty of drive bays from the major OEMs,
> they're just becoming rare.  Just my $.02.

I can completely understand why.  For the enterprise, that strategy 
makes a lot of sense.  After all, all the resources belong to IT and 
they can manage them.  Unfortunately, Academia is quite different. 
Computers purchased under one grant cannot be used for another grant and 
so on.

In any case, I've gotten some fantastic suggestions, and learned a lot. 
  I'll try to summarize the posts and send out another message this 
afternoon.

--Patrick




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