1U P4 Systems - holes
alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com
alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com
Wed May 23 12:01:58 PDT 2001
hi Robert
the $50 1U case off the shelf...
- you have to drill all holes for motehrboard, powersupply etc
and the metal it uses is like paper... ( extremely thin
the average off the shelf 1U case is about $250...
- one fd, one hd, one cdrom...--or--
- 2 5.25" bays w/ floppy
our chassis is a range... 2 drives up to 8 drives...
All 1U chassis suffer from:
- room only one pci card
- atx connectors on the back of the motherboard has to be
the Intel CA810EAL/D815EAL style...
- NOT the dual NIC supermicro motherboards
- except if you buy the 1U from supermicro themself
For a list of all the 1U vendors...
http://www.Linux-1U.net/1U_Others
have fun
alvin
> Ah. I may have misunderstood. I interpreted "off the shelf 1U
> enclosures" to mean equipped with a power supply and compartmentalized
> for installation, just like an off the shelf case or the $200 off the
> shelf 1U enclosure sold by case vendors. I also interpreted the
> "mounting holes" to be just the rack mounting holes, not all the holes
> into which things are to be fastened in the completely empty case.
>
> With that much hassle I might as well go with a filing cabinet design or
> buy off the shelf tower cases, take them apart, and remount the
> motherboard tray, drive cage, and power supply on shelving.
>
> My main whine is that one shouldn't have to do all this handiwork to
> build systems in racks when it is so much easier to do it in an assembly
> line. Case vendor margins on rackmount cases must be huge, because I
> cannot believe that there is THAT much economy of scale in the
> manufacturing process.
>
> I'll shut up now and just live with it.
>
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