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Originally Posted by teksonline
Hrmph, don't see what's to brag about, ill take a mid tower server over a bunch of cheap ass 1u's hugging together with a 90% chance of harddrive blowout anyday..
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You could use a bit of an education on several factors, I am sure. First, that those midtower cases are all poorly designed for cooling. Second, that any provider building "servers" in those cases is building desktops and not using server motherboards. The difference between a quality rackmount case and the cases you see in the other photos is the difference between paying $15-$30 for a case and power supply and paying $150+ for case and power supply. Amongst other problems, implementing cheap power supplys typically leads to higher failure rates due to poor voltage regulation and reliability - not to mention additional heat.
The servers that we build are at a premium because they use components engineered for reliability, performance and lower total cost of ownership over the life cycle. Those "cheap ass 1u's" likely cost twice the amount (or more) than the white box systems. They are a Supermicro engineered solution (case and motherboard) and are extremely efficient when it comes to cooling.
BluMedia - thanks for growing your business with us!
Casey, clearly you would win that competition! LOL LOL
Cheers,
Brad