<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:13 PM, <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Matt <<a href="mailto:mhoppes@gmail.com">mhoppes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I've had it with Dell server garbage.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They seem to change RAID</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">controllers as much as I change socks, and then the controllers don't work</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">with Linux, unless you load a new driver.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They sell servers with a PCI-e</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">slot in them, but then you get it and find out the RAID controller is using</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the PCI-e slot! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Their sales folks are dumber than rocks, and they change</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">them more often than I change underwear.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[end rant].</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Can anyone recommend an IBM or Gateway server that you have used with</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Asterisk and are happy with, and which will support RAID-1 or RAID-5 and has</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">room for one or two PCI-express interface cards?</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">HP DL380 is my baby.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Steve Totaro</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>Ditto. We've been using HPs for a while without problem. I'm currently using a DL380 (a recent quad processor one) and it screams. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Norman</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>