Just curious what everyone's experience is with buying their add-on cards and the difficulty(and lack there-of)of obtaining the proper mounting brackets(high-profile or low-profile).
I'm considering what nodes I want to add to my setup and have been ruminating on the SC826 for a while until I saw that the Dell R510 can host the same number of 3.5" drives but at the cost of expansion slots. The SC826 has the full number of expansion slots(7 IIRC), but are low-profile. The R510 has 3 full-height expansion slots and an internal storage slot.
I've seen some folks around here come into difficulty of obtaining specific brackets for their infiniband cards. So for those of you who buy everything separately or individually has the expansion slot form factor ever weighed into your final decisions and what have you found you valued more(as far as bracket availability and other factors are considered), LP or HP?
I'm considering what nodes I want to add to my setup and have been ruminating on the SC826 for a while until I saw that the Dell R510 can host the same number of 3.5" drives but at the cost of expansion slots. The SC826 has the full number of expansion slots(7 IIRC), but are low-profile. The R510 has 3 full-height expansion slots and an internal storage slot.
I've seen some folks around here come into difficulty of obtaining specific brackets for their infiniband cards. So for those of you who buy everything separately or individually has the expansion slot form factor ever weighed into your final decisions and what have you found you valued more(as far as bracket availability and other factors are considered), LP or HP?
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