RE: [cobalt-users] RaqPort seems to be dumping Raq's

["Jerry Farquhar" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes.. and No.. to a No-No..

I had purchased a Raq4R from Cobalt as New for a dealer demo and it has been
a lemon from the get go.. drive failures.. data corruption issues..
(??controller problems??) and on and on.  Basically it fell apart just out
of warrantee.

Personally one of the best boxes I have is a used Raq3i that we picked up
replaced the standard CPU with a 500 MHz one and jumpered the CPU socket to
run faster and converted it into a Raq4R.

Not only does it run all of the 4R pkgs.. it runs faster than the 4R's and
has been rock solid.

Personally if you can pick up used Raq3i's for $300-450 I don't consider
that a bad deal especially if you go into it expecting to replace fans, hard
drives.

Just my personal opinion though..

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:57 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RaqPort seems to be dumping Raq's


>It seems that RaqPort is dumping old hardware. I need a few more raqs and
>they are adding all kinds of "extra" stuff to the Raq3 configuration.  Can
>they be trusted to provide decent hardware and stable software
>configurations?

Do they state these are NOS (new old stock), in the original box? These
might be previous servers. That would be a big no-no, similar to buying a
car that was a rental for some time.

Paul

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