-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Successor of PE840? From: Alessandro FAGLIA <[email protected]> To: Dell Poweredge list server <[email protected]> Date: Wed Dec 23 2009 13:41:32 GMT+0100 (ora Solare Europa Occidentale) > Hi list. > > In the past I was used to purchase PE840 for small branch offices and it > was perfect: four 3.5" drive bays, SAS6iR-based RAID 1 and DRAC support > (v4). > > Now I'm facing the new class of tower servers and I cannot find an > "heir": can anybody advertise me a Dell server with four 3.5" drive bays > (three SATA disks plus a SATA DVD-ROM) and DRAC support? I had a look at > T10x and T110 but they are not good, the former having only two drive > bays and the latter because of the PERC S100/S300 controller that (I > read) does not work under any linux OS (better: has no driver for this OS). > > Is T300 my only choice? Isn't there any better cost-effective solution > as it was (at least for me) PE840? >
Nobody out there? Should I assume that there is no alternative but T300 to replace PE840? -- AF _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
