good servers?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, May 11, 2008, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>Anyone have any recommendations on good servers for Linux (brand +
>model)?  My big requirements are something that supports two quad core
>CPUs and gobs of RAM, but most of all good performance & reliability
>in Linux.
>
>Right now, I'm only considering the big names (Dell, HP, IBM, etc),
>but if you know of a smaller vendor who builds good stuff, let me
>know.

The Supermicro servers are quite good.  Silicon Mechanics does
quite a few of these, and is quite active in Linuxfest Northwest.

I just picked up one of their machines from RE*PC, a local PC
recycler, a 1U Silicon Mechanics box with dual Opterons, 3Ware
RAID and four hot-swap SATA bays.

Bill
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