[HCoop-Discuss] Comments on Semi-Finalized New Hardware Setup

[neumann]

> 
> The IBM xSeries stuff is quite a bit more expensive. I've been chatting
> with a few friends who do stuff like this as their Real Jobs (tm) to
> help figure out what kind of hardware we needed, and they all (sample
> size: 3; employed at GSFC and NIH and some ISP type thing... ) suggested
> Dell server hardware as having the best price/reliability ratio.

The place where I work have been using Dell desktops and several tower
servers and we have not had hardware problem with any one of them.

I won't vouch for Dells, but I can say that using Dell machines isn't a
guarantee of problems just like using IBM machines is a guarantee of
reliability.

F-D