Hi there,
Long time lurker, first time poster. Big fan of STH.
So… we’re looking to replace our Supermicro SYS-1029U-TRT systems with some new Milan 74F3 based systems.
I’ve had a bunch of quotes out and, weirdly, Lenovo SR645/665 systems are pricing below what Supermicro are offering on the AS-1124US-TNRP.
I did want some sort of on-site service because these are mission critical systems. The Lenovo have 2H response times and the SM have 4H.
So I guess my question is… does anyone have experience with Lenovo service? Supermicro on-site service?
The ThinkSystems have a nicer build quality than the SM. OTOH, in 3+ years on the 1029’s we’ve only had one PSU fail.
The only downside to the Lenovo that I can see is that you can’t just bring your own NVMe drives because they, for whatever reason, decided to sell their OEM drives with the hot swap tray attached to the drives.
Which kind of pisses me off enough to consider paying more for SM.
Or maybe someone knows a SM partner who can magic up better quotes, in which case, please let me know.
(Just randomly, Dell is pricing out at 2x Lenovo/SM, which makes me wonder if I’m missing some magic Dell cheat code…)
Long time lurker, first time poster. Big fan of STH.
So… we’re looking to replace our Supermicro SYS-1029U-TRT systems with some new Milan 74F3 based systems.
I’ve had a bunch of quotes out and, weirdly, Lenovo SR645/665 systems are pricing below what Supermicro are offering on the AS-1124US-TNRP.
I did want some sort of on-site service because these are mission critical systems. The Lenovo have 2H response times and the SM have 4H.
So I guess my question is… does anyone have experience with Lenovo service? Supermicro on-site service?
The ThinkSystems have a nicer build quality than the SM. OTOH, in 3+ years on the 1029’s we’ve only had one PSU fail.
The only downside to the Lenovo that I can see is that you can’t just bring your own NVMe drives because they, for whatever reason, decided to sell their OEM drives with the hot swap tray attached to the drives.
Which kind of pisses me off enough to consider paying more for SM.
Or maybe someone knows a SM partner who can magic up better quotes, in which case, please let me know.
(Just randomly, Dell is pricing out at 2x Lenovo/SM, which makes me wonder if I’m missing some magic Dell cheat code…)