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Where Do You Shop for Server Components?
Devi0s asks: "Along with many other Slashdot readers, I have been building my own PCs for years. I use hardware review sites such as Ars Technica, Tech Report, and Tom's Hardware Guide to research the components and pick out the best, and I use PriceWatch and ResellerRatings to find the best deals and to make sure I am dealing with a reputable vendor. I work in a small consulting firm where money is tight, and I'd like to test the waters with a few ideas of my own. In each case, various servers and external storage enclosures are needed on the cheap that will be pushed to their limits. Are Slashdot readers building their own servers and storage enclosures? What web sites provide the latest news, research, and and comparisons for server hardware? Where do you go to buy server components and vet your vendor?"
ibm.com
Of course, you can go to an IBM reseller and get a year old solution for about 25% of the original cost for a machine. Why mess around when you're building a server. Ostensibly a company will be using this to either make money directly or support the making of money in some other area of the business, so why mess around?
I prefer a void in conversation to a vacuous one.
I guess I gotta make that fourthed (is that a word?) The only problem I've ever had with anything I've bought from NewEgg was a D-Link DI-624 wireless router. The router worked fine (shipped fast as usual) but D-Link reneged on the rebate. That pissed me off but I can't hardly blame NewEgg for it ... they were up front that it was a manufacturer's rebate, not theirs.
Taking a cue from one of my friends who'd suffered a similar problem with a printer rebate, I re-sent the rebate, this time in a big manila envelope with the words "To the thieves at D-Link" on the cover. I didn't think that would actually work (I was just very irritated), but I got my rebate a week later.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I go to the local Fry's and Best Buy and and get what their very knowledgeable staffs recommend.
No, seriously.
Ever since I saw a story here about Lego case mods, I've been building my RAID array enclosures completely out of them. Now, I swear by them: cheap and modular.
Duplo will due in a pinch, but they really only work well with larger 5.25" half-height or full-height drives.
HTH
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How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Correction, You used to have an old G3 iMac serving that page.
Was the parent being funny? I just got back from Best Buy. I can't wait to try my UPS with my laptop. I just can't afford to lose anything I'm working on if the power goes off.
...from my Slashdotting insurance.
Excellent poster, will reply to again. :)
Warning: Opinions known to be heavily biased.
George Bush is visiting the Queen of England.
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there any tips you can give me?"
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Tony Blair walks into the room. "Your Majesty..."
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a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?"
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Short story we call the Better Business Beurau. NewEgg pulled some shinanigans and got the BBB to close the case as "customer satisfied.
Follow the money - the BBB is 100% funded by "member" businesses. They have a clear conflict of interest when resolving disputes and stores like yours are all too common.
I think the BBB must be a division of DeBeers considering how amazingly good a rep they have and have been able to maintain over the decades of duplicity.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
No. We own private jets because commercial air travel, like paying taxes, is for the little people.
-Fiona
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer