[Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500

[Flynn, Harold M. III]

Make 'em really suffer.  Buy another E3500, some sun ray's, and start
yanking pc's.  >:-)

(BTW, it's a damn cost effective alternative to a new Gateway/Dell/etc)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ds [SMTP:ds at primenet.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 21, 2000 9:21 PM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	[Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500
> 
> We have two E3500's that are used within a production surrounding where
> people are shuffling around them everyday.  I would like to see them in
> a rack, up off the floor and out of the way (possibly in the air
> conditioned, fire protected computer room about 30' away).  Currently we
> straddle them down on the floor under a table when we need to use them
> (what a way to treat a couple 3500's).
> 
> Since Sun's rack config starts at $7,500 dollars... I was thinking of
> purchasing a PC rack to place it in.  We use Compaq 19" racks ($2,500)
> for all our PC servers (we have a total of about 12 Compaq racks in
> toll).  My thought would be to purchase the floor kits for the E3500's
> ($100 ea.) and then place them on four way mounted shelves in the lower
> portion of the Compaq rack.  Since we need the monitor and keyboards at
> a remote location (about 40' away) we could purchase the 10m
> keyboard/monitor expansion kit ($75 ea.).  Then place a cheap 220
> terminal in the rack as a console for both units... total cost... about
> $3,300 w/tax (I said about).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> BTW - Before you say it... I know we should do the right thing and buy
> the Sun rack.  I live in a PC world at work... I was placed on the cross
> when I managed to purchase the first Sun (I was required to write 3
> documents outlining why it wasn't a Microsoft based product).  Some
> people STILL are not happy with me 2 years later.  I finally have
> managed to get 11 Sun's in an environment of 4,500 PC's... it's been a
> rough and lonely road (play Violin here).  There is NO WAY I will get
> them to lay out that much cash for a Sun rack.
> 
> Dean
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