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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:00:51 +0900
From: Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au>
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Subject: Re: hardware and For PostgreSQL
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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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