Joshua D. Drake wrote:
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:39 +, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no
longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds
Greg Smith wrote:
> I've been full-on vocally anti-Dell ever since they started releasing
> PCs with the non-standard ATX power supply pinout; that was my final
> straw with their terrible quality decisions.
Yep, makes me feel validated for all of the anti-Dell advice I have
given over the years
Recently most of our Dell servers came up for warranty extensions and
we decided against it. They're all 3+ years old now and replacement
parts are cheaper than the Dell warranty extension. In fact the price
Dell quoted us on warranty extension was about twice what these
machines are going for on
I've been full-on vocally anti-Dell ever since they started releasing
PCs with the non-standard ATX power supply pinout; that was my final
straw with their terrible quality decisions. But after doing two tuning
exercises with PERC6 controllers and getting quite good results this
year, just a f
I do think it's valid to prevent idiot customers from installing drives that
use too much power or run too hot, or desktop drives that don't support
fast-fail reads, thus driving up Dell's support load, but it sounds like
this is more of a lock-in attempt.
This is kind of a dumb move on their part
Matthew Wakeling wrote:
Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers
will no longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/
As one of the comments points out, that kind o
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, James Mansion
wrote:
> Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>>
>> Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no
>> longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell.
>>
>>
>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qu
2010/2/11 James Mansion :
> Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>>
>> Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no
>> longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell.
>>
>>
>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/
>>
>> As o
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>
> Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no
> longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell.
>
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/
>
> As one o
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:39 +, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
> Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no
> longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell.
>
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/
>
> As one
Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no
longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/
As one of the comments points out, that kind of makes them no longer SATA
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