HP server review.
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005I try to stay as positive as possible, and I rarely complain about things, but right now I feel it appropriate. Tonight I took on the task of racking 3 HP DL360 G4 servers. Normally this task is not too daunting, stick the rails in the rack, then slide the server in. However, it seems that HP decided to follow the erector set theme with their rails. This entailed 4 screws per rail all requiring the use of a wrench on one side, and a screwdriver on the other. A very hard task indeed when you only have two hands. All in all it wasn’t so bad as I only ended up with two cuts and a torn finger nail, not like I was in war or anything. The task only took me two hours to complete, which is only about five minutes per screw. Pretty slow for such tiny screws. Anyway, enough griping from me.
On a good note, I get to rack some Dell servers soon. I know this will be very pleasant because Dell has always been the best and easiest from my experience.
