Ya.. <AOL mode> Me too </AOL mode> I've run Exchange on Dell boxes for years (clustered, no less) and have had almost *ZERO* problems. If you're going to make an accusation that brand X is not stable on this list, you'd better have done your homework and provide some facts to back it up.
J -----Original Message----- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for hardware I'd still like to see some elaboration on this instability you claim. What is not stable? The RAID Controller, the server itself? What is causing you to feel this? -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Swift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for hardware Using two Dell Exchange servers both as 5.5 and now 2000 i have found them far less stable than the compaq one our parent company use, you might well be right they could well be stable but in my experiance they are not, ultimatly it makes no difference, as long as the server runs and is easily upgradable, as system admins we are all happy. I will say this, i come from a back ground of building PC's and in my experiance find that dell use budget parts for there machines, parts IBM and compaq don't use. This has alwasy steered me away from Dell servers. As we all know, well if we don't we should Dell don't really make anything it is just badged Dell, i use a Dell Powervault 705n 240gb RAID, but in truth it is a Quantum Snap. I don't really believe that any server is any better or any less, it depends on the enviroment it is in and how it is configured. nice to see you doing your bit Clayton :o) oh and as for the stability of the Sys admin, true i am a very unstable man, but aren't we all :o) -----Original Message----- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 November 2001 15:49 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for hardware Stu, buddy, how are ya. (Don, he is a friend of mine for real) Don's cool, so don't sweat it, and Stu's pretty switched on as well. There, I have done my peace keeping for today, back to the bombing campaign! -----Original Message----- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for hardware Oh really! Please elaborate as I've never had any of my Dell servers crash or have an appearance of instability. Are you sure it isn't an unstable admin? -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Swift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 7:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for hardware Don't buy Dell in my experiance they are very unstable. -----Original Message----- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 November 2001 14:54 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for hardware Me likes Compaq, easy to build up the RAID configs using their smart start disks -----Original Message----- From: Arnold, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for hardware Dell, IBM, Compaq..not necessarily in that order. -----Original Message----- From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: looking for hardware I'm shopping for a new server for exch2000. Any best bets? Kim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
