Supermicro A+ Workstation AW4020C-T

Good value for building your own server. Nice hot swap drive setup and tons of cooling. Newer mobo supports sata ii in raid 1+0 for great performance. Although supermicro only provided one year of warranty on parts and labor, they fixed my mobo (a bad...

Fans are loud. PCIe slot flaky with some raid cards. The 3 year warranty is only one year parts - after that just labor. Finding the correct drivers for x64 is tricky. The super and nvidia sites have them mislabeled.

Server worked for 16 months. Duel Opteron CPUs were strong performers.

I have been building desktops and servers for more than a decade. Supermicro provided me with a customer service experience that I will not forget. It was easily THE WORST EVER. Motherboard died after 16 months with three year warrantee. Tech support...