[Gllug] OT Dell Hardware

[Luke Hopkins]

>From what I can tell, it has dual Ultra 320 controllers, and PERC raid
controller that can be activated optionally.
In this case, it seems their offering of thrid party controller hardware
is a little pointless unless the on-board stuff has poor compatibilty?

I have to say they're looking pretty good, expecially with a free second
HDD.

Cheers
Luke

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Jason Clifford
Sent: 26 May 2004 15:12
To: Greater London Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] OT Dell Hardware


On Wed, 26 May 2004, Luke Hopkins wrote:

> A little OT, but we're looking at Dell poweredge (rackmount) 1750's.
> does anybody have any experience of the onboard Ultra 320 SCSI
> controllers under Linux. Ie, how do they perform?
> Should we be looking at a 3rd party controller?
> No RAID required at this point.

They work very well. UKFSN is colo'ing a couple of these for a customer 
and I have some 1650s (the previous incarnation of the same) and they
are 
very nice boxes.

I think the 1750 (like the 1650) is RAID only though - I could be wrong 
but I think it is the default.

Jason Clifford
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