Le 2012/03/05 19:54, Francois Labreque a écrit :
> 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...
>

Also, don't forget that most rack mountable components are hot swapable. 
That account for some price increase.
Want to change that board holding those 4 old single core CPUs with one 
holding 6 8 cores CPUs of the last generation? Disable the board, pull 
it out, push in the new one, fire it and you are good to go.

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