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Rack Mount BTX Case

Posted by Hemos on from the and-even-more-power-per-square-foot dept.

CoolTyler5 writes "The TechZone has posted some information on the world's first ever rackmount MicroBTX chassis. The new patent pending chassis, made by General Technics, allows for more powerful processors and storage capability with a smaller, quieter and cooler MicroBTX form factor. The manufacturer also claims it's nearly silent and at 16 inches deep, will fit into most short depth rack cabinets." Of course, the issue that we have at our data center is not really the physical space. Sure, we'd love more space but the power draw per square meter is at the county-maximum. It's great that we can cram more machines into a smaller foot print, but powering all of them is the issue.

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  1. Re:It's relevant to me... by dc29A · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since the article is touting the Pentium 4 D as processor, it is already a bad choice to run :). Opterons can be put into 1U easy and are superior to a P4 D server. Why would anyone not use Opterons/AMD 64 X2s today in servers, especially for small companies is beyond me. How is this rackmount different from a 1U?

  2. Advertising by mysqlrocks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, this is a little off topic. I'm supposed to trust information from a web site called "The Tech Zone" that allows those fake ad dialog boxes saying, "Your computer may be infected with harmful spyware programs..."? Shady.

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  3. Re:Patent pending? by dancallaghan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Patent PENDING. Maybe it won't be granted if its flimsy enough.

    Ha! Ha ha HA HA! Yes, you gave me quite a laugh there. We are, after all, talking about an American company. And we all know how strict the USPTO is with granting patents!

  4. Re:It should be irrelevant by ocelotbob · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It looks like it's 2 5 1/4" drives tall, which is usually a 2u case, but regardless, that's important info that's omitted in this article. More importantly, however, is the utter lack, it seems, of hot swapping. Yeah, it's got 5 drive bays, but if you've got to power down the server to swap a bad disk out, what's the point? The writer seemed to be more about "oooh shiney" and less about the things that actually matter in a server room.

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  5. home and musician racks.. by hitchhikerjim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah -- not that useful for a data center because space is no longer the big issue for a lot of people.

    But for musicians, having a quiet machine that sits in a rack that isn't too deep means I can put a system in the same rack as the rest of my gear. Can you say portable pro-tools? and for my home setup, I've got 3 or 4 systems. For years I've wanted to get them all rack-mount so that they can be in a neat stack rather than sitting on the floor under desks... but then i stop when I realize how loud rackmount systems are.

    So it's useful for some poeople I think.