Re: [OT] Help my rackmount server just blew up ....

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

I had imagined that the dell was fairly custom - certainly it has a custom
front with all kind of button on it and the back has fairly custom mounting
options.

Chris


----Original Message Follows----
From: Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Help my rackmount server just blew up ....
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:30:29 +0000


Can you not just reuse the case and replace the bits?

Especially if you don't need newest and fastest?

Or is the Dell rackmount case a Dell special and hence hard to replace and
modify yourself?

Ho yin

At 09:13 09/02/2005, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Well not quite blew up but certainly died. It was an old dell 1u
rackmount
>acting as my firewall (running smoothwall).
>
>So to my question - anyone know of a source of cheap rackmount serverrs
in
>the UK (other than EBAY) ? I would need to nics and a pci slot. Speed
and
HD
>size is not important.
>
>Thanks
>
>Chris