good servers?

[C M Reinehr]

Roger,

On Mon 12 May 2008 11:05, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 09:50 -0500, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > The last system that I purchased was custom built by Thinkmate
> > (http://www.thinkmate.com/). It was configured, ordered & shipped with a
> > minimum of fuss & bother and has worked reliably now for sixteen months
> > (if you don't count the WD 10K SATA drives that have failed--three &
> > counting).
> >
> > I just checked and they do quad-core servers & install Red Hat
> > Enterprise, as well as Suse & Fedora.
>
> I see that they use some SuperMicro motherboards and chassis.  At least
> in the system they have that is like one we use a lot of
> (http://www.thinkmate.com/System/XS4-1100).  Thanks for the pointer.
> Part of our consistency problem is the local supplier who likes to swap
> in what he has too much of in stock - no matter what we really ordered.
> Delivery is always a 'process'.

I dealt with a very good saleman by the name of Jon Breen 
(jon.breen at thinkmate.com) who was more than willing to make whatever 
substitutions I desired.

I forgot to mention that their warranty & warranty service is excellent. I've 
had three hard drive failures in 16 months (vive software raid 1!). They have 
a three year warranty, an online RMA form, & have shipped me out a 
replacement drive within twenty-four hours of my submitting my request.

cmr
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