Re: Dell prepares to rebrand

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, Theo wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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I have very good connections at supermicro, and sadly what was
communicated to me a few months ago was that they are only interested in
selling "AI" servers now, so cheap, high:ish density 1U servers are out
and no one gets a lot of commission on it, so it's a pain to get anyone to
care about those orders. =(
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Chenbro I have not heard about. I will check it out! Another option is
Gigabyte, sometimse it seems as if Gigabyte can be a good replacement for
supermicro.

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We have some Gigabyte.  They're fine, they're kind of mid range in price and
in creature comforts (BMCs etc) but they're ok.  Chenbro is very much at the
budget end, would tend not to go there (sharp metal, cheap PSUs, ...)
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Put in some Asrock 1Us, there are some with Ryzen desktop CPUs that
have very good price/performance (~£3k for similar spec to a £6-8k Dell) but
they can be a bit hard to buy.
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But the most recent batch was Supermicro AS-1015A-MT, Ryzen 7950X3D, 128GB
RAM, 4TB NVMe, 1U for about £3k.
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Theo

I discussed Chenbro today with my HW partner and the price difference compared with supermicro once you start to add apu, ram, nvme etc. is minimal. His recommendation was to stick with supermicro to get a better quality chassi, psu etc. and if the difference will only be a few 100 of USD it does sound reasonable.