Re: hardware and For PostgreSQL

[Paul Lambert <paul(dot)lambert(at)autoledgers(dot)com(dot)au>]

Ron St-Pierre wrote:
> Joe Uhl wrote:
> > I realize there are people who discourage looking at Dell, but i've been
> > very happy with a larger ball of equipment we ordered recently from
> > them.  Our database servers consist of a PowerEdge 2950 connected to a
> > PowerVault MD1000 with a 1 meter SAS cable.
> >
> >   
> We have a similar piece of equipment from Dell (the PowerEdge), and when 
> we had a problem with it we received excellent service from them. When 
> our raid controller went down (machine < 1 year old), Dell helped to 
> diagnose the problem and installed a new one at our hosting facility, 
> all within 24 hours.
>
> fyi
>
> Ron

This is good to know - I've got a new Dell PowerEdge 2900 quad-core, 4GB 
RAM, 6*146Gb SAN disks on RAID-5 controller arriving in the next week or 
two as a new database server. Well, more like a database development 
machine - but it will host some non-production databases as well. Good 
to know Dell can be relied on these days, I was a bit concerned about 
that when purchasing sent me a copy invoice from Dell - particularly 
since I was originally told an IBM was on the way.

Good ol' purchasing, can always rely on them to change their minds last 
minute when they find a cheaper system.

--
Paul Lambert
Database Administrator
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