I run into the opposite problem - some tight case from unknown
manufacturer means you will never find a PSU that fits. With Dell you
call and withing 2 days you have one on your desk. As for the price it
is never 10 times the cost - some times as high as 2 times, but never
10 times. But then again I have only once had a Dell power supply go
out on me. And I have a sample size of several thousand machines and
almost 15 years.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Brian Cluff <
brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> I personally don't like all the proprietary parts that dell uses, weather it
> makes them easier to work on or not.
>
> It really doesn't matter in the long run if you need to put a new power
> supply into the machine, only to find that Dell is the only one on the
> planet that can sell you that power supply and not only will it be a special
> order, but it will cost 10 times what a standard server power supply costs
> that you can get off the shelf.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 08/21/2010 01:06 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>>
>> That is a good point - The only server upgrades I do are hard drives
>> and memory - for which Dell is easy. But if you wanted to upgrade the
>> raid card, or move into a hotswap backplane or, put in redundant fiber
>> channel cards, or even up the cpu's; Dell is more difficult because of
>> it's chasy design and limited card slots. Not to mention they get
>> additional performance by using specialized parts - so you start to
>> think about dell specific cards and that can make comparisons and
>> price to performance evaluation more difficult.
>>
>> So for me - who simply replaces the server every five years and does a
>> minor upgrade to it before trickle down, Dell is great - if you do
>> more customization then it is not so good.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Kevin Fries<kfries6@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have run both Dell and Supermicro and have had good luck with both. If
>>> I
>>> had my choice, I would select Supermicro because I like the
>>> upgradeability
>>> over Dell. That being said, I still have two Dell R200's in my lab
>>> running
>>> ProxmoxVE environment that I use to do product simulations early in the
>>> R&D
>>> cycle that run great.
>>>
>>> But if you want absolute Linux compatibility... look at System76.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> On Aug 21, 2010 1:37 PM, "Bryan O'Neal"
>>> <Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would like to second my vote for Dell - I have had to work on some
>>> old SuperMicro machines and it was never pleasant. Dell on the other
>>> hand has so many killer tools and so much information and such helpful
>>> linux people that I have never had a complaint.
>>>
>>> BTW I can hook you up with my OEM reseller - may get you a better
>>> discount, then again it may not. But always purchase as a business
>>> from Dell not an individual - I hear the individual support kinda
>>> bites and it requires nothing to be a business.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Stephen<cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:>
>>> I
>>> have noticed dell does ...
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