Richard Zimmerman wrote: <snip>
Honestly, I'm leaning against Dell because their stuff just doesn't seem to be built to last. We have 1 T620, 2 R620 servers. So far just past the 5 year mark, 3 dead hard drives, 2 power supplies. That is with the machines mostly TURNED OFF. (Failed IT project after I was hired; aborted a move to a new ERP system) With my personal Dell laptop just bought 4 months ago, periodically get the 6 beep on power on error. Tells me Dell quality / quality control might not be where it needs to be.
<snip> That's... odd. We have a bunch of Dells, R4[123]0's, R520's, R7[23]0's, an R815, etc, and they keep chugging. Some of them are 5, 6, 7 years old, and I rarely have any h/d issues, and PSU issues are equally rare.
If you're having this kind of issue, you should talk to Dell support, and escalate it, so that a manager takes ownership. I've had one do that, years ago, when we kept having issues with one machine, and they were *serious* about "taking ownership" (as opposed to Sun/Oracle, file them under "none of the above").
mark