Dell Poweredge PE860

...is the same on all dell servers it used ECC Memory which is Error Correction Standard memory on the market is mainly NON ECC which is alot less in price than the ECC Memory

I wanted to upgrade the memory to 2GBs of Ram being brought with 1GB the memory set me back a further £70

This can be got round by asking DELL to build the server to the correct amount of memory you need.

I thought i was being clever ...
...but didnt work out

That aside it is a quality build

Upgrade on processor is ok but wont support a 2nd processor.

Basicly all in all you need to purchase the server to the specification you want and with out ideas to upgrade straight after because it doesn't work out cheeper.

4 Stars for this due to the upgradeability and expandability  ... more

A good server afew faults but nothing that cant be got around.

I brought two of these a couple of months ago.

Very reliable and excellent for web servers dns etc.

One fault i found is that it is very fussy on memory which is the same on all dell servers it used ECC Memory which is Error Correction Standard memory on the market is mainly NON ECC which is alot less in price than the ECC Memory

I wanted to upgrade the memory to 2GBs of Ram being brought with 1GB the memory set me back a further £70

This can be got round by asking DELL to build the server to the correct amount of memory you need.

I thought i was being clever and saving money purchasing my memory else where to upgrade but didnt work out

That aside it is a quality build

Upgrade on processor is ok but wont support a 2nd processor.

Basicly all in all you need to purchase the server to the specification you want and with out ideas to upgrade straight after because it doesn't work out cheeper.

4 Stars for this due to the upgradeability and expandability 

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