On Tuesday 09 February 2010, William Warren wrote: > On 2/9/2010 5:17 PM, howard_sho...@dell.com wrote: > > Thank you very much for your comments and feedback regarding exclusive > > use of Dell drives. It is common practice in enterprise storage solutions > > to limit drive support to only those drives which have been qualified by > > the vendor. In the case of Dell's PERC RAID controllers, we began > > informing customers when a non-Dell drive was detected with the > > introduction of PERC5 RAID controllers in early 2006. With the > > introduction of the PERC H700/H800 controllers, we began enabling only > > the use of Dell qualified drives. > > > > There are a number of benefits for using Dell qualified drives in > > particular ensuring a positive experience and protecting our data. ... > This is common reasoning given for any vendor that starts practicing > lock-in. Dell has just gone down that road. I'll either not buy Dell > servers OR order them without your controllers and use some of my own.
If they'll allow you to use non-Dell controllers... /Peter > Over the years proprietary solutions are only cash cows and rarely if > ever really live up to the claims put forward by the vendor.
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