Hi John I have work with an IBM Blade system, sorry can't give you specific model numbers. Dual P4 2.3 Ghz servers with 36Gb SCSI drives in a RAID 1 config, Ghz NIC. They were very sweet, ran extremely well. I would never go IDE drives in a server if I had a choice of SCSI. But space wise you would probably have been able to fit the same number of Pizza boxes in the rack space that the Blade Chassis took. I don't know pricing, happy to say I don't deal with that. Apples and Oranges. Cheers Cherie Kelly -----Original Message----- From: John Case [mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 8 April 2004 2:07 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Blade Servers Has anybody had any experience with using Citrix or Terminal Services farms on Blade Servers? If so, IDE or SCSI drives? Brands? Thanks! John Case Technology Coordinator Ohio Hi-Point Career Center ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. SAVE MONEY by scaling-up rather than buying more servers. http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=147 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm -- This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender and delete the transmission. The contents of this e-mail are the opinion of the writer only and are not endorsed by the Mincom Group of companies unless expressly stated otherwise. ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. SAVE MONEY by scaling-up rather than buying more servers. http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=147 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm