An important factor in the reliability and security of our systems is the choice of hardware. With other providers price considerations sometimes take precedence, meaning they rely on products that may be unsuitable for servers. Our servers however, are only fitted with high-quality and expensive components.

So that our hardware always meets these high quality standards we rely solely for example, on RAM manufactured by Samsung or Kingston. Samsung and Kingston are known for their high-quality and error-free performance. And we certainly won't purchase from another manufacturer to obtain a lower price and risk compromising security.

We take particular care to ensure we meet our customers' individual requirements. Custom-made solutions are not suitable for everyone. Such a complex range of server applications often requires a wide variety of configurations and priorities in terms of hardware. For this reason we almost always assemble our customers' servers ourselves. This allows us to verify that all components work perfectly together – from the case right up to the CD-ROM drive – and that the system is always perfectly matched to our customers' needs.

Should it occasionally become necessary to replace a component in the data center on the customer's request or in the case of very rare hardware problems, that's no problem at all. Giga-International.com has every conceivable part twofold and threefold in stock at its own spare parts warehouse as well as directly on site at the data center, which means that downtimes are kept to an absolute minimum for our customers.

The photo below depicts a "hardware highlight". Take a look at the inside of one of our Dedicated Servers Core i7. These servers are equipped with the best components available to date and therefore score peak values in every discipline: from computing power to disk space or available RAM. For our servers, we only use brand name hardware.

In the photo you can see the socket 1366 Asus motherboard with an Intel Chipset. The RAM slots are placed at the top right, they hold six 2048 MB-DDR3 1333 DIMMs from brand-name manufacturer Kingston. An Intel Core i7 920, which has four cores with 2.66 GHz each, has been installed to the left of it. The Core i7 architecture represents the top notch of Intel's current CPUs and easily outperforms predecessor or competitor models. The 3.5''-slide-in bays are occupied by two 1000 GB S-ATA HDDs. The hard disks are from brand-name manufacturer Samsung and are always set to operate in AHCI mode unless the OS does not permit it (very few don't support it). For the Dedicated Server Core i7, only power supplies which have been awarded with the 80 Plus logo, better yet the 80 Plus Bronze or Silver logo, are used. The high efficiency of such power supplies saves energy. On the one hand, our customers profit from the resulting savings, which are used to lower the monthly fee. On the other hand, these power supplies contribute to the protection of the environment. The case and the installed fans have been optimized for the cold/warm corridor concept of our datacenter: powerful 120 mm fans suck in cold air from the front of the case and blow it out on the rear side, to the warm corridor. The front side of the case is designed to maximize the amount of cold air and therefore achieve the best cooling result. The cabling has been designed so that all components are cooled. The hardware, especially the hard disks, therefore operates under ideal temperatures – all the time.

This server was photographed during assembly (the S-ATA cables are yet missing).