To add to Lenovo frustration: I have issues the night after I deployed my 30+ Thinkcentres I bought two years ago. Half would go to stand-by and/or hibernation even if they are completely turned off. NIC power management in Windows is off, BIOS is up to date. It did not matter what settings I set in the BIOS. I get by with a script that wakes the damn machines up after 15 minutes.
Servers? During the first 6 months our X-345, one RAID-1 drives died, two days before the warranty expires a RAID-5 drive died. Had I not extended the warranty we would have to pay $845 for the drive. Dell? I think the most crappy of their hardware is their Western Digital hard drives on the workstations. I just counted and there are 17 dead WDC drives from various OpticPlex models in the box on the floor. Switch to something else please. Other than this, our PowerEdge servers have been rock solid. Even the PE 1650 that is about 10 years old runs decent with Windows 2008. -Z.V. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
