On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:26:29PM -0500, Kevin wrote: > On 3/21/05, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Dell perc 4 stuff is a rebadged LSI card, they'll > > show up as ami's. > > > > The perc3's are adaptec aac's as far as I know. > > > > I don't have any non-dell ami's, although dell also > > does a non-embedded one that you can just buy. If you want > > a card that works buy a PERC4/DC > > We are mandated to purchase hardware from Dell, > for my next pair of servers I've been given the choice of a > PE1850 or PE2850. Both offer the PERC4/ei controller. > Any known issues with this RAID controller? > > Has anybody deployed on a PE1850 with Dell's hardware RAID > and can report back success or failure? > > Also, I have a choice of network interfaces, either the Intel 'em' > or the Broadcom 'bge'. Which is the lesser of two evils?
Intel 'em' for sure.