On Sep 6, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> I'd recommend against Dell unless you're at a company that orders
> computers by the hundred lot. My experience with Dell has been that
> unless you are a big customer you're just another number (a small one
> at that) on a spreadsheet.
I order maybe 5-6 servers per year from dell, and the sales rep knows
me when I call him. Just set up a business account.
That said, lately I've been buying Sun X4100's for my DB servers.
These machines are built like tanks and extremely fast. The only
difficulty is hooking up disks to them. The only sane choice is to
use a fibre channel card to an external array. The only dual-channel
internal SCSI RAID controller that fits is an Adaptec model, and it
is to be avoided.