From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 14:53:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F77916A401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@revolt.com) Received: from mail.cow.org (neu.cow.org [66.94.69.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231A013C48C for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@revolt.com) Received: by mail.cow.org (Postfix, from userid 1014) id 11D6EB8B6; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:53:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:53:01 -0500 From: chris neill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070126145301.GA15871@revolt.com> References: <226ae0c60701260641x1419b19ck6a073c637d452423@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60701260641x1419b19ck6a073c637d452423@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:05 -0000 On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: > My personal experience with Dell is that it's ok until you hit a > problem. Then it's hell. So bad, in fact, that we don't purchase them > anymore and have gone with IBM and HP systems for our FreeBSD, RedHat > and Windows machines. Can you say PERC? > > IMHO, the problem with Dell is not their hardware, but their support > (or lack of it). Ditto -- We had a (duh) PERC 3/di go south on a PE2550 and getting Dell to fix it was like pulling teeth. Once I finally leaned on them enough to get them to agree to an RMA, I had to wait until the next day for the part to be courried to my datacenter (which was a slight gaff, since they don't usually do S&R), and another couple of hours for the guy to show up. > > If you plan on running your Business on Dell, be prepared for > Incredibly bad and horrible support. Be it consumer product support or > Enterprise 24/7/365 type support. > Agreed.. and since FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE runs on Sun X86-64 servers (X2100, X4100, X4200), I don't see any reason to have to bother with it. However, I do have a handful of PE2950s in deployment, just upgraded them all to 6.2-RELEASE, no problems yet (unlike those crappy SuperMicro Pentium D boards). Cheers,