12 Feb
2006
12 Feb
'06
7:39 p.m.
Michael B. Brutman wrote:
The only thing that scare me about 'real' servers designed for corporate
use is the non-standard parts, like drive sleds, RAM, etc.
Back in the day (here I go .. rant mode) you could buy reasonable
quality hardware without going to a full blown server. Usually that
meant going SCSI instead of IDE, or buying Matrox instead of Diamond.
Those days are over.
Yep.
I finally quit that rat run and my firewall is now a Soekris net4801.
It runs Linux, and it's only more expensive than the Old PC route if
air conditioning, power to run the firewall, and my time are free.
I love Soekris' hardware. The quality of design and execution is
quite rare.
Doc