Roger- We (Grand View College) have had great interaction with both HP and Gateway (Dell decided we didn't spend enough money with them to have a dedicated sales rep)
About a month and a half ago, I had several servers HD fail out of the RAID set. After rebuilding the disk both drives failed again (these were on separate servers an HP and Gateway). I called on the Gateway 955 server at 5:45 PM CST and had a replacement HD by 9:00AM the very next day. Same thing with an HP DL380, just a different day. I know some people chuckle or say "Gateway Servers?", but I have been nothing but pleased with their performance, support, and price. They, like HP and DELL offer an entry level server that is using the SATA drives, as well as higher-end servers. We ordered our first Gateway servers 1 1/2 yrs and ago, we have (3) 975 servers and (2) 955 servers, basically when our regional rep promised us drastic discounting on the servers when we were buying our summer batch of PCs. Gateway has some serious promotions going on right now for their servers, I'd be willing to get you our sales reps email if you'd like. Ultimately, we have decided to run HP. Mainly because our local VAR has bent over backwards for us. They can also provide discounted pricing all of the time through the HP WSCA channel. Where we were buying our Gateway Servers on promotions, which aren't always available. I believe the price difference the last time we got quotes had the Gateway server costing $860 less than the HP. In all fairness to HP, the FSB was 800MHz instead of 533 and their service was 13X5 instead of 9X5. Neil Olson IT Department Grand View College Des Moines, Iowa ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Schmeits, Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:41:54 -0600 >Well after our last bout with hp.com on ordering hardware and servers we >decided to look around for a small company that can possibly handle our >hardware needs. > >We are in the need of typically small 1U server dual procs raid and such. >Can anyone recommend a company with very good hardware and a hardware >support system that's worth talking about? > > > > > >Thanks. > > > >RS. > > > > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
