Re: [TCLUG:11792] [TCLUG] I'd like some opinions on a business

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

You may want to look at SVEC, maybe form a relationship with them.  I
love their cases, that's all we buy now.  They have AT, ATX and various
cases for storage arrays.  www.svecusa.com, our contact is John if you
wanted to talk to them.  We're real happy with their stuff.

RAID is a whole nother story, I've had to learn it myself and it kind of
sucks.  I'd recommend DPT's cards, though they're kind of expensive
they're really nice.  Also AMI's MegaRaid is alright.

I've had good luck with Tekram's scsi cards, although they didn't have
bootdisks for Slackware so I had to compile my own.  They seem as good
as Adaptec.

Scott wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Adam Maloney wrote:
> 
> > Knowing that the hardware I buy is 1) local and 2) works with Linux
> > would be great for us.  If you had a lot of options, like standard or
> > rack-mount cases, RAID, etc, that would be great.
> 
>      I'd try to provide as many options as possible from the
> start, it's all just a matter of money when it comes to how
> big I can start.  Rack-mount cases & the like would be
> fairly easy to acquire, but my itch to offer PPC based
> systems is a bit tougher to scratch.
> 
> > If you go through with this I'd sure like to know about it.
> 
>      If I keep getting responses like that, I'll definitely
> go through with it.  Kind of slow going since I not only
> have to learn about some of the more esoteric stuff (like
> raid), but I have to learn the entire disgusting business
> side of things.  If people dig it though I'm willing to
> suffer through it.
> 
> Scott
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Adam Maloney
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Internet Exposure, Inc.