hutchingsp
Limp Gawd
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I have a total environment refresh due in a few months and storage as software is very appealing for all the obvious reasons.
Dell, HP and the likes charge a small fortune for SSD and enterprise SAS drives plus the minute you want to go over 12 drives a chassis it's "Oh now you need an expansion cabinet".
Having just looked, SuperMicro is very appealing - 24 bays, latest LSI Nytro's and you can stuff them with Intel SSDs and Seagate Constellation ES drives so it's not like we're talking cheap crap consumer SATA drives.
There are enough vendors offering NBD or even same day onsite support etc. and trust me when you go through some of the online configurators the number at the bottom is just stupid vs. the equivalent Dell or HP.
And of course you can go drop.. well a *lot* of cash on a vendors magic server/appliance and it'll be Supermicro underneath the fancy bezel so they are clearly out there in true enterprise use.
What's peoples thoughts and more importantly what are peoples actual experiences please?
Just to clarify I'm not talking about going down NewEgg and buying a cartful of parts - I mean buy from a vendor who offers onsite support etc.
Dell, HP and the likes charge a small fortune for SSD and enterprise SAS drives plus the minute you want to go over 12 drives a chassis it's "Oh now you need an expansion cabinet".
Having just looked, SuperMicro is very appealing - 24 bays, latest LSI Nytro's and you can stuff them with Intel SSDs and Seagate Constellation ES drives so it's not like we're talking cheap crap consumer SATA drives.
There are enough vendors offering NBD or even same day onsite support etc. and trust me when you go through some of the online configurators the number at the bottom is just stupid vs. the equivalent Dell or HP.
And of course you can go drop.. well a *lot* of cash on a vendors magic server/appliance and it'll be Supermicro underneath the fancy bezel so they are clearly out there in true enterprise use.
What's peoples thoughts and more importantly what are peoples actual experiences please?
Just to clarify I'm not talking about going down NewEgg and buying a cartful of parts - I mean buy from a vendor who offers onsite support etc.