On 7/28/05, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have an 1850 because by the time they came out, > Dell didn't have an amd64 based server, and Sun and IBM did, so we > switched. Prior to that I bought lots of dell stuff and had good > experiences with them. (still do with their disk and raid). If you > don't care about amd64 (which we do, because it has significant > performance and security implications in the future) they are > a very good choice.
On this subject, I am looking for a good dual-processor AMD64 (1U or 2U) with OpenBSD-supported embedded hardware RAID 1 or RAID 5. SCSI is good, IDE/SATA is acceptable, basically an equivalent to Dell's PE1750 or PE2850. Suggestions? > It's unfortunate Dell is so far in bed with Intel that > they will never ship an amd64 machine. I'd love to buy a bunch > from them :) At work I don't really have a choice -- we can either buy Sun or Dell, or spend weeks justifying not using the approved vendors. While Sun is offering some very nice AMD64 (and Sparc64) kit, Sun just never seems to understand that customers want embedded hardware RAID controllers on the motherboard. Kevin Kadow
