Re: hardware advice

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Shaun Thomas <sthomas@optionshouse.com> wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 03:44 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
>> This 100x this.  We used to buy our boxes from aberdeeninc.com and got
>> a 5 year replacement parts warranty included.  We spent ~$10k on a
>> server that was right around $18k from dell for the same numbers and a
>> 3 year warranty.
>
>
> Whatever you do, go for the Intel ethernet adaptor option. We've had so many
> headaches with integrated broadcom NICs. :(

I too have had problems with broadcom, as well as with nvidia nics and
most other built in nics on servers.  The Intel PCI dual nic cards
have been my savior in the past.