Edward, I can agree with you completely, when it comes to production equipment. Unfortunately, that technical lock-out doesn't expire when the warranty does. A lot of people went through this with Dell when people figured out that we wouldn't be able to upgrade drives attached to a PERC H700/800 controller. The drives had to be "Dell branded". Eventually they went back on their policy and are issuing a firmware allowing 3rd party drives.
Details are at http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2010/04/dell-reverses-position-on-3rd-party-drives/ If what Ski is saying is true, and I have absolutely no reason to believe that it isn't, then that's even worse than a drive lockout. Try running a server in your testing stack on the same amount of RAM you used in production 2 years ago. This sucks. I was so happy that Dell was listening to their customers again. Ski, did you get the final word from Dell or from Crucial? --Matt On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. COOKIE MONSTER: Boy, I wish I were a sysadmin so I could go to the NJ-PICC Sysadmin Conference! http://www.picconf.org _______________________________________________ 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/
