Recommendations for server hardware (1U and 2U)..

[Bryan O'Neal]

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 at 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 at 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 at gmail.com> wrote: > I
> have noticed dell does ...
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