Kevin wrote: >On 7/28/05, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I don't have an 1850 because by the time they came out, >>Dell didn't have an amd64 based server, and Sun and IBM did, so we >>switched. Prior to that I bought lots of dell stuff and had good >>experiences with them. (still do with their disk and raid). If you >>don't care about amd64 (which we do, because it has significant >>performance and security implications in the future) they are >>a very good choice. >> >> > >On this subject, I am looking for a good dual-processor AMD64 >(1U or 2U) with OpenBSD-supported embedded hardware >RAID 1 or RAID 5. SCSI is good, IDE/SATA is acceptable, >basically an equivalent to Dell's PE1750 or PE2850. > >Suggestions? > > > > >> It's unfortunate Dell is so far in bed with Intel that >>they will never ship an amd64 machine. I'd love to buy a bunch >>from them :) >> >> > >At work I don't really have a choice -- we can either buy Sun or >Dell, or spend weeks justifying not using the approved vendors. > >While Sun is offering some very nice AMD64 (and Sparc64) kit, >Sun just never seems to understand that customers want >embedded hardware RAID controllers on the motherboard. > > the V20z has embedded Raid built nicely on the MB. I think it works well... doesn't this suite your needs? Brandon
>Kevin Kadow
