Advantages: Thin, not too heavy, reliable Disadvantages: Manufacturer support not great
First off, I ought to qualify this review by telling you a little about how much I've done and messed about with the PoweredgeSC1425 servers. My company bought eight of them around a year ago, and since then, I've been solely responsible for integrating them into our infrastructure ("sticking them in the server room" for those now looking blankly at the screen).
In so doing, these servers have therefore been taken apart, put back together, had various operating systems installed on that, have been racked up, unracked, moved around various physical locations, had upgrades and all manner of other things done to them- so in short, hopefully I'm well qualified to make more than a passing judgement about them.
First things first. Take the server out of the box and what do you get... a thin (1U, which is roughly a couple of inches in ...
Advantages: Very easy to set up and maintain Disadvantages: Can't see any
Power Edge is main line of Dell servers. 2950 is most universal base server from that line. If you are not sure what spec should your server have, just order it with one dual core CPU (1333MHz bus, not 1066; makes big difference), RAID5, three HDDs and 2GB of RAM (in two sticks preferably), two power supplies (it's server, reliability is it's second name).
You may find, that it's actually all you need. If not, thanks to superb case and internal build you can easilly upgrade its spec. It has two CPU slots, eight DDR2 banks, can take up to six SATAII or 8 SAS drives. It can also take any two PCI or PCI Express cards (depends which standard riser you ordered).
It come with minimum 3 years next business day onsite response warranty but it can be upgraded (althow it cost a lot more). From personal experience I have to say that Dell server ...
Advantages: in my case none Disadvantages: dealing with a faceless organisation
I have been trying to purchase a laptop from Dell and you would think they would be keen to get business, but no, twice now they have cancelled my order with no notification to me. I only found out by calling them to find out why delivery had not happened. The third occasion after lots of apologies and assurances i agreed to continue with the order.
The delivery date has now passed, I have tried to check the order progress but it will not accept the booking reference number, my 'Sales Manager' has not returned my calls or emails and I have just been told by the 'Customer Services' the order has not been processed and they did not know why.
If considering purchasing a Dell online I would think very carefully of the implications of any follow-on service you may require
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