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"Supermicro has assembly facilities in California, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, but its motherboards—its core product—are nearly all manufactured by contractors
by rsync 8y ago
"Supermicro has assembly facilities in California, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, but its motherboards—its core product—are nearly all manufactured by contractors in China."
That's interesting. As someone who has bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of gear from Supermicro (and has been a huge fan of their products and designs) I always thought their chassis were their core product.
Recently SM started to go down the "you can't buy our JBOD chassis without buying them full of our qualified drives" ... I knew that was the end of the golden age (of SM).
Luckily this coincided with the introduction of the 60bay HGST JBOD chassis. We haven't looked back.
- lozaning 8y agoEvery storage vendor eventually goes full NetApp. The money just looks too good.
- phil21 8y ago> Luckily this coincided with the introduction of the 60bay HGST JBOD chassis. We haven't looked back. Yes, these units are stellar and anyone buying Supermicro JBOD units should be looking into these as much better replacements. If you have volume they can be even more competitive than Supermicro if you push.
- rsync 8y agoOne very, very small gripe is that the HGST JBODs have no power switch. You power them on and off by inserting or yanking the power cables. Not my favorite SOP ...
- dylan604 8y agoIs that a real thing? Holy cow, I'm shocked (bad pun intended). What about adding an inline switch in the cord? Unless they expect everyone to be using a managed power system where each plug can be turned on/off, this just seems very odd decision to make. <off to look up this beast>
- Klathmon 8y agoAs someone that flipped the power switch on a rack mounted machine by accident before, I could see how a power button or switch would be consitered a liability more than a benefit, especially when the solution (pull the power cable) is simple, foolproof, and doesn't happen that often to warrant optimizing!