Re: [cobalt-users] Why did Cobalt use custom Hardware?

["Herby K" <mad1.z@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "David Booth" <dbooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Why did Cobalt use custom Hardware?


> Thanks for that Mike. I feel a little better.
> Even though I have now got a spare (15 day standard warranty turnaround
> would have seen me out of business - the only option on offer was 'buy
> another one' (whereas I would have ripped the ps out of the boxed one and
> handed it over and done an RA on the boxed one)) I'd like to feel I don't
> have to live in expectation of another failure. I do tell customers with
> hardware trouble that all this stuff is like light bulbs but I'd like to
> think there is some reliability built in.
>
> I selected it and will use it exclusively for what it is designed to do
and
> do everything through the gui. I want it to be great! Better than my
jumble
> of redhat boxes which always have to be told what to do all the time. I've
> got my raq tucked behind a gateway which will take card of the tricky
stuff.
>
> David Booth
> Goulburn Internet
> http://www.goulburn.net.au
> 0500522400
>

Just a summary of our 4 RaQ4 Servers:

Replaced: 8 Fans (all of them)
Replaced: 5 Harddisks (crashed all - 1time we did the mistake to buy an
original sparepart which crashed again) - custom harddisks will do better

RaQs use always very old Hardware

RaQ4: 400MHZ AMD CPU (or 450 cant remember), 5400 RMP Harddisks, IDE !!!, 13
ms Accesstime on HD, only 1 GIG RAM possible (only 2 Slots)

And you are trapped in the slow delivery of security updates (weeks later
than other Linuxes)

In the meantime we have left business with 3 of our 4 RaQs. And the 3 will
remain here as Spareparts for the last dinosaur at our location.


And this is only because of the crap Hardware - give us the Gui only and we
are back in business.

rgds,
Herby