Anyone mind sharing who they use for a supplier for the following and what config they build (and even what parts/model numbers are used) when purchasing parts/supplies to build their own rackmount servers?

Cases
Power Supplies
MotherBoards
RAM
HD's
Processors

Also throw in an approx price if you know it. If a few people do this we may help one another save $$ or find better deals/hardware.

-Brendan

This (http://www.racksaver.com/products/RS1112.asp) is where I start. =)

I have had 4 racksaver boxes die on me in the past 2 weeks :( Not going to be purchasing more stuff from them.

-Brendan

We're an extremely hands-on DIY shop, but building servers is one thing we've decided not to monkey with any more. I highly recommend http://www.qsol.com for reliability and amazing customer service. (Tell Joe Safai I sent you. )
:cool:

I'll give Qsol the thumbs up as well, very good experience with Mr Joe Safai during our server purchase with them last year. Up till now their hardware is still going strong :)

Argggg!! :) Does anyone actually build their own or no? I have like 30 qsol boxes :)

-Brendan

Hey Brendan

This company (http://interpromicro.com/) I just bought from, also sells a variety of hardware for rackmount systems including cases. Kind of a noobron when it comes to building servers, but I found the LZS case pretty nice.

Heres one from there: RMC1N2-2 is the part number on that.
2 SCSI bays, 250W, room for 2 PCI expansion cards.
$367 or something like that on the price.

As far as the other hardware goes, you could go anywhere.

Target-usa sells cheetahs for $250. I'm sure there are plenty of dealers on those though.

Interpro micro sells Supermicro P4DL6's relatively cheap.
Or this link to the Intel SDS2 (Dual P3 SCSI board): here (http://www.interpromicro.com/commerce/product.jsp?product_id=2869&czuid=1020372657437)

RAM: crucial (cheapest outlet, some folks would balk probably)

Processors (and really, pretty much everything): Pricewatch

Anyway, hope that helps. I still owe you a t-shirt, I will go to the post office now ;) .

Regards,

Jeff

Originally posted by HRBrendan
I have had 4 racksaver boxes die on me in the past 2 weeks :( Not going to be purchasing more stuff from them.

-Brendan

Dont tell me this ;) Im looking at buying 8 new servers from them next week. Which model(s) were the ones that died?

We currently buy from acmemicro.com, we built a few servers ourself but found the few bucks to pay a company to make all the componets fit/work in 1u servers was worth it.

Thanks

Yup,

I have had troubles with at least 75% of my racksaver servers. I've been running dell for a while now and have yet to have any troubles. I just ordered my first qsol this week and joe was quite nice to deal with. If they seem like a reliable server I will probably order a batch to try them out.

Originally posted by Dilhole
We currently buy from acmemicro.com

What are your experiences so far?

Originally posted by Walter


What are your experiences so far?

I havent had any hardware problems from anything purchased from them yet. Most are scsi supermicro 6010/11's with a few tyanmb setups in there.

Thanks for the racksaver feedback. Im not looking at them anymore.

Since QSol got brought up in Mr. HRs thread :) ..... Joe is now buying server chasis from http://www.gigabytenetworking.com/gbn_main.asp . We just got our first. Nice. Clean insides. Big improvement.

David, give them a try.

First of all, I personally wouldn't buy any hardware from any
company with the name "saver" in it. Thats just asking for
trouble. :)

If you really want good hardware try rackmountpro.com. It's cheap and it rocks.

Good luck!

I am glad to hear that qsol are buying good chasis now. That was the one thing that kept me from ordering there sooner. I heard that the servers used to warp a fair bit and that it was a lot quality chasis.

Originally posted by UmBillyCord
Joe is now buying server chasis from http://www.gigabytenetworking.com/gbn_main.asp . We just got our first. Nice. Clean insides. Big improvement.


Hi UmBillyCord, which of those gigabyte server did you buy? We are interested in the SR112, not sure how much. And do you buy direct through gigabyte? Most place I see seel SR101 and SR104 and that's about all for gigabyte server.

cheers,
:beer:

Steer away from racksaver, after we start havign some problems, I cheked the components, it's quite bad that we and some customers paid so much money for the lowest quality brand motherboards you can fidn on pricewatch

if you want a really good, dependable and cheap supplier .. acmemicro.com

Originally posted by CRego3D
Steer away from racksaver, after we start havign some problems, I cheked the components, it's quite bad that we and some customers paid so much money for the lowest quality brand motherboards you can fidn on pricewatch

if you want a really good, dependable and cheap supplier .. acmemicro.com

After hearing all this about racksaver I think ill stick with acmemicro too :) I havent had any problems yet with their stuff.

Originally posted by dektong


Hi UmBillyCord, which of those gigabyte server did you buy? We are interested in the SR112, not sure how much. And do you buy direct through gigabyte? Most place I see seel SR101 and SR104 and that's about all for gigabyte server.

cheers,
:beer:

We are IDE guys. :) We got an SR103. As much as we hate to make our racks non-uniform, I think we will need to start getting these from here on out. :)

We got it directly through Joe at QSol.com. It is cheaper, plus as many have stated here before, they are a good company.

I've been buying slightly used servers from liquidators lately, mostly via their auctions on ebay. I try to buy locally (Boston) and have found a few firms that I deal with regularly.

I have almost all VA Linux boxes (now California Digital) - but I would also recommend Dell if you were out to purchase new.

I will check out qsol...

Thanks,
Bryan

Many people may overlook IBM, but there pretty darn good on prices and offer a darn good product.

I would take there x300 as a sound entry level system, and there x330 for a dual machine.

Overall with there warranty I would take IBM over many of these smaller companies.

Joe

check out http://www.bonavio.com/ thx