Had two servers on order that were pretty vanilla and it took a month to get both of them.
The manufacturing problems are actually pretty interesting. It seems Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (commonly known as “Foxconn”) opened a giant plant just across the border in Mexico. Anything that was assembled in the US by Dell is now assembled in Mexico by the Foxconn. Foxconn was using walmart tactics making people work overtime for free by claiming that the buses used to transport workers were held at a roadblock on multiple occasions and that the workers just needed to continue to work. After this happened a number of times workers set the plant on fire. Depending on what version you read the damage varies from trivial to 1/3 of the facility. From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: dell rant Ive been a solid dell guy for years but this is about as aggravating as it comes. We have a new server that cannot get the 2.5 15k rpm drives for several weeks due to manufacturing problems. We went and got drives from hp and the drive caddys so everything is great right? NOT, if you have a new Dell 700 raid controller you can only use Dell certified drives, the drives are ‘blocked’ on the controller >From the manual "troubleshooting"section: Issue: One or more physical disks is displayed as Blocked and can not be configured. Corrective Action PERC H700 and PERC H800 cards support only Dell-certified SAS and SATA hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD). If you are using a Dell-certified drive but are still experiencing this problem, perform the following actions: 1. Check the backplane for damage. 2. Check the SAS cables. 3. Reseat the physical disk. 4. Contact Dell Technical Support if the problem persists ---- Content & Policy Scan by M+ Guardian ---- Millions of safe & clean messages delivered daily ---AV & Spam Filtering by M+Guardian - Risk Free Email (TM)--- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
