How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data

Re:How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data by neverm0re on Saturday November 03, 2012 @03:58PM (#4737702)

You'd hear of Norco if you're on a budget, they're one of the many cut-rate brands. Supermicro charges roughly three times the price for enclosures, which do get the job done if you aren't bitten by firmware issues, but are by far not a budget brand compared to the competition out there.

I've actually considered some Norco enclosures in the past for a hobbyist project, but I had concerns over their hot swap backplanes -- mainly, a lot of reliability issues reported. Catching on fire pretty much settles it!

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Re:How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data by rdl on Saturday November 03, 2012 @04:04PM (#4737725)

I've used http://www.aicipc.com/ for low-end. Or Chenbro, or Antec. (and eBay, or craigslist, or otherwise sourcing used stuff getting thrown out at a datacenter)

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Re:How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data by neverm0re on Saturday November 03, 2012 @04:22PM (#4737780)

Thanks for the AIC pointer, it's hard to find much useful info when you're essentially ordering equipment from the finest brands DealExtreme has to offer.

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Re:How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data by DiabloD3 on Saturday November 03, 2012 @04:05PM (#4737726)

Besides Supermicro and Chenbro and Dell and HP and IBM and (whats left of) Sun, who else is there to buy from? There doesn't seem to be any other brands anymore.

ASUS makes server mobos, but not cases (I'm not sure who's cases they're using for barebones units), and Antec makes low end server cases, but no barebones, and Intel makes pretty horrid server mobos but use someone else's cases for barebones.

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Re:How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data by rdl on Saturday November 03, 2012 @04:24PM (#4737783)

Intel's someone else's cases = Supermicro, usually.

There's Penguin (Linux/HPC), iXsystems (FreeBSD/storage),and Tyan for "server barebones."

Usually I'd just pay these guys to build something: http://www.computerlink.net/

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Re:How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data by mbell on Saturday November 03, 2012 @10:31PM (#4738713)

I'm pretty sure iXsystems uses supermicro cases as well, they just put their branding on them.

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Re:How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data by btgeekboy on Sunday November 04, 2012 @12:42AM (#4738961)

Apparently, Cisco also makes servers these days. No clue how good they are in any department (performance/reliability/costs), but they exist.

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