Gabriel Wicke wrote:
That's non-ECC ram though and no cdrom. The rail costs 49$ at siliconmechanics. Newbie question: Is the rail like a drawer so that you can pull the server out of the rack? I've never physically seen my servers up to now...
Some are like that. But the cheap ones are just 'mounting hardware'. I think Dell comes without mounting hardware of any kind, which is very bad obviously. Something has to be done.
Penguin offers a variety of mounting hardware options. Sliding rails are nice, but usually a bit pricey considering how rarely servers need to be taken out of the racks, and how relatively easy it is to do it anyway.
I do think that will be buying a kvm/lcd/keyboard thingy for the colo, though. Those can be very very handy.
--Jimbo