[Asterisk-Users] What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 29 Dec 2005, at 01:02, William Boehlke wrote:

>
> The 830s are nice but limited because they do RAID on a card and  
> have but
> one suitable PCI slot. So you can have an interface card or RAID,  
> but not
> both.

That's not true. I just built a system on a Dell 830 with the RAID  
card. There are three PCI slots in total and one of them fit the  
Eicon DIVA Server card I'm using.

I've been using Dell rackmounts at work for years now and never had  
any issues. This is the first time I went for a tower server, there  
is no rack at home...  The box isn't entirely noise-free, but  
compared to the equivalent rackmount models it is very quiet, you  
could call it "pantry-friendly" as opposed to "living room-friendly".

The machine runs CentOS 4.2 (RHEL 4.2 with the VIN numbers scraped  
off) and Asterisk 1.2.1 with chan_capi. Granted, I'm not a heavy  
user, but I like the voice quality I'm getting.

jens