BEWARE OF DELL SERVERS!!
I am an IT Consultant who switched to Dell servers for my clients about 10 or so years ago. I had just taken delivery of a new T610 for a client and cracked the box open and replaced the hard disks with brand new Seagate Constellation (Enterprise class) RAID certified hard disks. THEY ARE BLOCKED! This is absolutely absurd and I am planning on sending the server back to Dell. Their H700 controller is nothing more than a private labeled LSI controller and the hard disks the system came with were nothing more than crummy private labeled Samsung hard disks. For Dell to pretend that they are doing something special with this hardware is a bold faced LIE! This is all about making money and restricting what their customers can do with the hardware their customers buy. What is worse, when you configure your server on Dell's website they do not make a disclosure (at least I saw none) stating that the controller will only function with Dell private labeled hard disks. Further, they should not be marketing their controller as SATA if it will not function with all SATA compliant drives!
What is next? Making us buy our blank CD media from Dell as private label media "certified" to work in their CD burners. Will they require on Dell branded USB devices too, like mice, keyboards, external disks and thumb drivers? This is a fraud of the worst kind and they truly deserve to be taken to task on this restrictive and ridiculous practice.
I represent several dozen clients all of whom have bought Dell servers at my direction over the years. This is stopping immediately. I will not ever buy another Dell product just on principle, since there can be no justification for forcing us to pay them higher margins for private labeled product.
It is ironic that Novell tried this same thing (HA HA - also with Samsung hardware) back in 1985 when they forced their channel to buy Novell servers which were nothing more than private labeled Samsung servers which Novell charged double for.
Dell - are you so ignorant that you do not learn from history!
As a 30 year verteran of the IT industry, my memory runs long and you have now succeeded in losing a once loyal customer.
I am an IT Consultant who switched to Dell servers for my clients about 10 or so years ago. I had just taken delivery of a new T610 for a client and cracked the box open and replaced the hard disks with brand new Seagate Constellation (Enterprise class) RAID certified hard disks. THEY ARE BLOCKED! This is absolutely absurd and I am planning on sending the server back to Dell. Their H700 controller is nothing more than a private labeled LSI controller and the hard disks the system came with were nothing more than crummy private labeled Samsung hard disks. For Dell to pretend that they are doing something special with this hardware is a bold faced LIE! This is all about making money and restricting what their customers can do with the hardware their customers buy. What is worse, when you configure your server on Dell's website they do not make a disclosure (at least I saw none) stating that the controller will only function with Dell private labeled hard disks. Further, they should not be marketing their controller as SATA if it will not function with all SATA compliant drives!
What is next? Making us buy our blank CD media from Dell as private label media "certified" to work in their CD burners. Will they require on Dell branded USB devices too, like mice, keyboards, external disks and thumb drivers? This is a fraud of the worst kind and they truly deserve to be taken to task on this restrictive and ridiculous practice.
I represent several dozen clients all of whom have bought Dell servers at my direction over the years. This is stopping immediately. I will not ever buy another Dell product just on principle, since there can be no justification for forcing us to pay them higher margins for private labeled product.
It is ironic that Novell tried this same thing (HA HA - also with Samsung hardware) back in 1985 when they forced their channel to buy Novell servers which were nothing more than private labeled Samsung servers which Novell charged double for.
Dell - are you so ignorant that you do not learn from history!
As a 30 year verteran of the IT industry, my memory runs long and you have now succeeded in losing a once loyal customer.