There is always the DL380s... Or Dell 1650s. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:EZiots@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:23 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor True, But when you got Lives on the line, as in a hospital environment, you tend to be in a Zero tolerance for failure mode. HOnestly, I gotta agree, with you on the Compaq Servers, they are very stable, run excellent, and easy as hell to set up, and their uptime is almost 100% (Hardware issues only). Now it always depends on the wondering application software you use on the server, but Win2k Server and Compaq DL380G2, have not let me down yet. EZ -----Original Message----- From: brian.hill@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:brian.hill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 4:04 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor Hey, stuff happens. Nothing is perfect. Think if your work was judged the in the same manner you are judging the DL360. If the same standards were used (zero tolerance for failure) then you would probably be out of a job. Even with the bad power supplies (which are now fixed) they are still great servers. They are still my server of choice for the level of flexibility they offer. I haven't had any power supply failures once they have been replaced. Compared to any of the Dell, HP, or IBM servers, the Compaq servers rock. With exception to the power supply failures on the DL360s, I've had zero problems with my any of my Compaq servers. With the redundancy that I have built in thanks to the inexpensive DL360s, the impact from the power supply failures has been minimal. The DL360s have still achieve 99% uptime even with the faulty power supplies at a fraction of the cost of big servers. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, Frank [mailto:Frank.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:09 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor To add: 10 power supply replacements out of 12 here. -Frank -----Original Message----- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:EZiots@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:21 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor Yep,=20 I have had 5 at my site go bad also, I think there was a previous thread = on this, I never trusted the Pizza boxes that much anyways, and the Compaq Folks was in my datacenter getting serial numbers for the units that = haven't failed yet, to get the fix for em.=20 Word to the wise, GO WITH THE CHEAP STUFF, GET THE CHEAP RESULTS.=20 EZ -----Original Message----- From: Mason Dively [mailto:mdively@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 11:52 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor Wow!! That is hilarious!! Its funny because I understand your pain--we have about 10 of those bad boys and have had to replace the power = supplies on all but 1 or 2. Compaq has a Service Advisory about these being defective in a portion of the 360's, but the kicker is they won't = replace the power supply until it goes bad--so basically you have to wait until = your server dies!! =20 Thanks, =20 Mason B. Dively MCP,CCA Amdocs CMI Windows Administration -----Original Message----- From: Stansel, Paul [mailto:Paul.Stansel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:41 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] OT: DL360 almost humor For those that remember the threads a few weeks ago about DL360s...=20 I had purchased 3 of them almost a year ago. They sat humming quietly = along in my datacenter. I never had a problem. Until this morning. I came = in to find one down. Tried to boot it, and it said the power supply was bad. Thankfully I keep a spare. Replaced it, rebooted, all was good. As it = was coming up, a second one suddenly powered down. I said "hmmm...." and = tried to power it back up. Bad power supply! I pulled one of my test 360s = and yanked the power supply from it, and got that one rebooting. As it was coming up... you guessed it, the 3rd died. I swear, it was so funny I = had to laugh. They actually died in the same order they had been activated = in, one right after the other. I felt like I was on Bloopers or something! = The third, sadly, is down until I can get a replacement power supply. 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