Re: [cobalt-users] I am getting ready to purchase a RAQ3i (Reliable) ??

["Daniel Pumphrey" <dpumphre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe them to be extremly reliable.  Most of the problems I read here can be quickly and easily solved outsite of the Web Based GUI, but it appears that many may not understand how to fix things outside of the web based GUI.  I think that for site administrators its a perfect solution, but you still must have a clue as to the internal workings to be a successful machine administrator.
 
It sounds like many have bought the boxes beacuase of the GUI and do not have the experience to work outside of it.
 
Also most of the hardware failures tend to be hard drives.  Welcome to the real world.  Drives are known to fail and its a part of being a machine administrator.  This is not just with Cobalts - I have drives fail all the time throughout our data center on all types of hardware, especially IDE drives.  I would suggest using a hot swappable raid solution, with a quick disaster recovery back up if you can not live with drive failure.