Exactly. Check all the basics too, like power and cooling. At the data center
where I have my systems, and at a few customer sites I manage, I always check
these things first. Under good conditions, I've had few problems with any
2U or larger systems. Also, the systems I've built, or had built to spec
have survived extremely well compared with systems from the major
manufacturers. That said, 1U servers can be problematicm e,g, no  
matter what you buy, cramming 48 1U systems in a cabinet is going to be tricky, 
especially with newer, hotter cpus. 

Of course now that I've said this all my systems will spontaneously combust.
:-)


-- 
Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:47:32 +0300
"Dmitry Mityugov" <Dmitry.Mityugov@MyRealBox.com> wrote:

> Hi Al,
> 
> If your hardware dies magically, I am not sure if it helps much to switch to 
> another platform. What components died in all those boxes? Are all wires 
> those boxes were attached to, including modem lines, LAN links etc properly 
> grounded? Any chance you might have this problem: Zinc whiskers in the data 
> center, http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/110104widernetwhiskers.html?net ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dmitry
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Albert Zick" <al@datazap.net>
> To: <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 20:33
> Subject: Re: Midrange Server hardware recommendation, please.
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if someone could help me with my hardware needs. I have 
> > had 9 i386 system that have failed in a relatively short time. So, I am 
> > wondering if there is a good alternative. After 5 Compaqs, 2 dells, an 
> > intel dual processor system, and a white box; I really don't want to waste 
> > any more money on systems like these. It just seems like I am always 
> > having hardware failures, and I would like something reliable. I know that 
> > NetBSD runs on just about anything. I am just wondering what platforms 
> > everyone has had the best luck with. Maybe Sun?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Al
> >
> >