Costs of Building a Custom nU Servers[tm]
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- Select the custom nU Chassis[tm]
- Select from the standard ATX or microATX Motherboard
( preferably with onboard NIC and onboard svga )
- Select the desired CPU ... Celeron or P3 or AMD CPU
- Select the desired Memory Options ... SDRAM, DDR, ...
- Select the desired IDE or SCSI3 Disk drives and capacity
- Select any additional PCI cards
- Linux-1U.net/CM Contract Manufacturing Costs
- Costs of Time
- Costs of time in meetings
- Costs of time spent waiting for 3rd party vendors
- Costs of time for mistakes and 2nd passes
- Development and Design engineering time
- Costs of experienced STAFF to perform tasks
- Costs of mechanical/autocad design time
- Costs of sheet metal vendor selections
- Costs of paint shop vendor selections
- Costs of design and fabrication of custom printed circuit boards
- Costs of electronic components ( led, wires, switches, pcb, etc )
- Costs of mechanical components ( screws, foam, cardboard, etc )
- Costs of inventory of parts ( mechanical and electrical )
- Costs of inventory management systems
- Costs of shipping, receiving
- Costs of linux developments, patches, updgrades, security updates
- Costs of field service and support of sold systems
- Costs of new sheet metal
- AutoCad Drawings for new chassis
- Sheet Metal vendors
- Painting vendors
- Screws and other hardware vendors
- 2nd and 3rd source vendors
- Sheet metal QA and QC
- Costs of a new Custom 1U Chassis Design
- New Product Specifications
- Competitor's Products analysis
- Look-n-Feel of new chassis w/ marketing and customer requests
- prototypes of new chassis
- in-house functionality testing of new chassis
- Air and Heat flow testing
- leadtimes for design and prototypes
- Costs of Custom Front Panel
- Look-n-Feel of new chassis w/ marketing and customer requests
- Custom membrane and logo designs
- Custom keypad interface
- Custom PCB design and manufacturing
- Power switch and reset switch selection
- Power, Disks, LAN and fault LEDs
- Keypad for LCDs
- headers and pins for interconnect
- mounting of switches and led and wiring to motherboard
- Hardware Selection Process
- Which 1U Chassis
- Which Power Supply
- Which Motherboard
- Which CPU, memory, disks
- Which switch, leds, lcds
- Who are the 2nd and 3rd source vendors of these items
- Linux Optimizations
- Linux Distro selection
- kernel optimization
- Security Policy and Server Hardening
- New Product Testing
- Functional tests
- Marketing and beta Product Testing
- Inventory Management, Manufacturing and Production Floor
- Inventory of parts needed to ship completed systems
- Manufacturing and Cloning and duplication process
- Daily output capacity of assembly line and reliability
- QA and QC testing for identical systems
- Product Shipping, Warranty and Tracking and RMA
- Product Maintenance and Updates
- Distribution Server for Product release and updates
- Testing farm PRIOR to release to customers
- Too expensive to fly around the country/world to install updates and apply security patches
- Self-checking Servers
- Self-Reporting servers to check in regularly
- Self-updating Servers
- Self-correcting Servers
- Self-updating Product releases
- Self-updating Security Patches
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