From: "Robert Comer" 

> I have heard good things about them, especially from your old boss.
> 

He's a salesman now, so you know how that goes...

> In the past basically I would get a 2 processor machine with a number
> of SCSI drives in RAID5, I'm thinking of going with a blade and some
> sort of external RAID array or NAS device.  Mainly I want to add
> storage without a lot of fuss.  I'm looking at the IBM DS300 as I
> write this.

We don't have anything like that here, but if I were buying another server
right now, it'd have to be a whole lot cheaper for me to consider another
brand.  Same for laptops.

Now their desktop PC's, I'm not so wild about, nothing special there, I can
build better ones myself.  That's what we mostly have here, but that's more
because they're not quite as messy from the store as a consumer brand PC.

- Bob Comer


"Richard B."  wrote in message
news:8v2er0567sfd7oal3903jiao3dvjui8mk2{at}4ax.com...
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:04:35 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
>>I've always had real good luck with IBM servers, ruggedly built,
>>redundancy,
>>ease of maintenance...
>
> I have heard good things about them, especially from your old boss.
>   In the past they were slightly more expensive than I could
> afford, but now I can consider a bit more box.
>
>>Yep -- IBM. 
>
> In the past basically I would get a 2 processor machine with a number
> of SCSI drives in RAID5, I'm thinking of going with a blade and some
> sort of external RAID array or NAS device.  Mainly I want to add
> storage without a lot of fuss.  I'm looking at the IBM DS300 as I
> write this.
>
> - Richard

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