[geeks] half-depth 1U servers (link)

[John Francini]

On 12 Mar 2008, at 9:41, Jeff Cole wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 07:59:56AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> This is a follow-up to a recent thread about shallow 1U x86  
>> servers, here is a link to a retailer that has some such servers  
>> for sale (the "rackable" brand servers are designed for two to be  
>> installed in a regular 1U slot):
>
> I can't say enough bad things about Rackable. The company I currently
> work for is in the process of RMAing 18 of their 3U storage servers.
> This only after going around and around with them for 6 months  
> trying to
> hammer out an agreement. We incurred a large amount of data loss  
> due to faulty
> drive firmware, faulty chassis design, and faulty RAID card  
> firmware. We were able
> to recover some data thanks to On Track, but, some of the data was  
> just
> gone forever.

So out of curiosity, what did your company replace them with?

j