On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:54:03 -0500, Francois Labreque wrote:

> Le 2012-03-05 14:42, Orchid Win7 v1 a écrit :
>> On 05/03/2012 18:47, Alain wrote:
>>> I agree, rack mounting normal motherboards is not the brightest idea.
>>
>> OTOH, it seems that any equipment that says "rack mountable" on it is
>> instantly 5x the price, for no apparent reason...
> 
> Of course, the engineering that goes in designing the special connectors
> to power and manage these boards, as well as keep them ventilated comes
> free of charge, in your world...

Along with hot-pluggable redundancy in power supplies and in some cases 
even the controllers plugged into the system (hot-plug PCI anyone?).

Jim

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