On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>> Of Brian McKee >>> >>> I think that's hopelessly naive - If you think they will have the same >>> ram on the shelf a year from now that shipped with the system, I've >>> got a bridge for you. > Don't call me naive. That's insulting, and neither accurate nor productive.
My bad. I apologize. I did not intend to be insulting, but I can see where that could have been interpreted as such. Mea Culpa. > Allow me to rephrase: > Yes, if you have a 2yr old dell server, and you want to buy a memory or hard > drive upgrade kit from Dell, you can rest assured that it's available for > purchase. They need to keep these things in stock anyway, for warranty > replacements, so they'll happily keep some number of them for sale too. I > have done this many times, and I am doing it again now. Let me rephrase a bit too. Sure, Dell will have something on the shelf. But it quite likely is NOT the same part as what was shipped in the system. I also feel (but can not prove) no *testing* was done to insure it works, they merely put out a bid to their suppliers saying 'I need some more ram with these specs' and pick from the responses. They don't manufacture, they just source parts from places. I have received OEM replacement parts that are different then OEM shipped parts. Do you think a new HD will have the same firmware as the one they shipped a year ago? Lots of examples like that. > Even > when commodity parts are standards compliant and supposedly interchangeable, > different implementations of some standard are sometimes still not > compatible (or buggy.) The supposedly standard commodity parts were never > tested on this system, with this chipset, as thoroughly as the > system-branded product. I don't feel OEM 'branded' product is any less standard compliant than any other quality replacement product. Sure, the cheapest stuff will be the buggiest, but Crucial doesn't sell better ram to Dell than they sell under their own name. I agree that paying extra at the point of sale does give you a better chance of components that work well together, but once you are more than say a year out, I think buying OEM at that point often isn't worth the premium. Brian -- Hey, it's your computer.... isn't it? _______________________________________________ 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/
