I’ve built entire DC’s out of Super Micro hardware, they rock.
For example, their quad opteron boards allowed me to make 64 core systems in 2013-era!
For example, their quad opteron boards allowed me to make 64 core systems in 2013-era!
their Atom half-step servers were very, very effective for building out call center routing and VM nodes. Atom has/had some problems with one-off issues like race conditions, but they worked quite well.
data center vendor also let us do some non-traditional airflow steps as long as it didn't screw with the hot aisle, so we packed racks with these things front and back