> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Justin Ellison > > Does anyone have any pros/cons when comparing the two vendors? > Anything to watch out for?
Don't let your opinion be biased by either company's laptop support. For servers ... I haven't had an HP server for about 3 yrs so maybe this is out-dated, but I doubt it. When some server is sold with support for Windows Server, or Red Hat Linux etc ... And 1-2-3 years later you decide you need to install something else on it ... My experience with Dell has been good. I've never failed to install any OS onto a Dell server. (That's a fib. Sometimes a new piece of hardware requires a new driver that wasn't included in some old OS. Dell has from time to time, forced me to upgrade my OS against my will, but it's never been horrible.) My experience with HP has been horrible. I had an HP server with scsi disks. I needed to create a full system backup (long story.) I tried booting from CD and using ghost... But the scsi chipset was a strange one, which all dos-mode scsi drivers failed to recognize, and there was no alternative available on hp.com. I could access the external USB drive, that I wanted to backup to, but I could not access the scsi disks. So I booted from a linux CD, which recognized the scsi disks, but it also had a strange USB chipset, which linux failed to recognize. So although I could see the internal scsi disks, I could not access the USB drive. I decided I needed to break the mirror, backup one drive onto the other, then boot into Windows and copy the file off to USB. But there was no BIOS utility to manage the RAID. You have to boot into Windows and then manage the RAID from a software tool inside Windows. It was a nightmare. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
