> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Ski Kacoroski > > WARNING: Stay away from Dell if you expect to upgrade their memory.
Or just buy your memory from Dell. Which would be the supported thing to do. Personally, based on experience that I'm sure I've written here before (but is very long so I don't want to write it again) I recommend always buying your parts (disks, memory, etc) from the manufacturer of your system, unless you're so budget constrained that you have no other option, or unless you're willing to acknowledge and accept increased risk of system failures, errors, and data loss. Apparently, I didn't write it here. So here is a link, to my long-winded explanation of why to always buy your parts from the supported channel (that is, buy from Dell if you want to upgrade your Dell.) This is the 2-paragraph summary: If you assemble all these "standard compatible" components from various manufacturers, each one will only warrant their own component. You have a problem, you call up Seagate, the drive passes the diag, so they tell you it's your HBA. You call Intel or LSI or Adaptec, the HBA passes their diag, so they say it's the drive. You call up Sun or HP or Dell, with all of your components being one-name branded, and they assume support ownership for the system as a whole. Not just one component. And since they've got thousands of units deployed, they don't have weird compatibility glitches like this anyway. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg37929.html _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
