Sorry for my questions, but: On 7/28/05, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-27 19:52]: > > I run heaps off Dell PowerEdge 1550, 1650, 1750 and 1850 without issues. > > FWIW I also run a pile of dell 650, 750, 1650, 1750 machines > with good success. I use the ami builtin for raid on the 1650 and 1750 > with good success running i386. 650's and 750's are ide only. > > 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.
Why do you say that? performance and security implications???? > 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 :) > > -Bob
