Bothersome

[morr.livejournal.com]

We recently installed a new HP Alphaserver DS15. It includes an external raid array and an internal SCSI DAT drive. The DAT drive has been a problem since we set it up and now it just won't work at all. The system is less than thirty days old so it's under warranty. I call HP to get someone to come out and check the drive and the person I get on the phone, who evidentally handles DAT drive calls all day, says "Wow, an Alphaserver, I didn't know they made those anymore!"

He works for HP, come on!

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[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

i was on hp's site looking for a dual opteron system yesterday(no luck!), and ran across the alphaservers.. for 2 million bucks you can get a hell of a nice 64-way alphaserver :D


seems odd no name-brand people sell dual opterons with a lot of disk storage.. back to clone boxes it is!

[indigo-max.livejournal.com]

You'd probably get a similiar response if you called in for service on an HP 3000 (also called a E3000 now I believe) running MPE. Before HP decided to sign the EOL for MPE a few years ago, calling into HP and finding someone with the knowledge of one these systems was like pulling teeth.

Max...

[hamilton.livejournal.com]

You can get a v40z with 2 CPUs and 6 disks from sun. If you even went with the smaller v20z with only 2 disks you can still store up to 500GB with some big scsi disks.

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v40z/index.jsp

[hamilton.livejournal.com]

i didn't know they still made alphas either. :)

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

ouuuuuuchh.

even without any disks in it, that's still way over the price of the clone box.. and then to put the 2 TB of (apparently scsi only) disks in it......

Whitebox clone it is :)

[hamilton.livejournal.com]

I totaly agree with you, way over priced. I was just replying to the "no name-brand people sell dual opterons with a lot of disk storage". They do, just damm expensive. I've got a clone at the office thats still in the box, no idea what it is, I'll have to open it Monday and maybe let ya know if I remember.