[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

Jack Schneider puck at dp-indexing.com
Tue Sep 26 23:14:48 EDT 2006


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Jerry,
I have purchased 3 boxes from dell outlet over the past few years, Like
New, better warranty, burned in 8-).
I would not hesitate if I was buying DELL.
My .02
Jack

Jerry Yu wrote:
> I am tasked to purchase a few Dell PowerEdge servers, cheap. Dell outlet
> seems to be a natual choice. I wonder if any ALEr wants to share his/her
> experience with 'scratch/dent' versus 'certified refurbished'.   A good
> bargain comes & goes so fast on their site. Any known trick to pull to
> ensure I get what I want w/o refreshing the page every so often
> (manually or using curl)?
> I heard some horror stories about other outlets simply stamp their
> returned servers as 'certified' w/o going through really fixing up. Thus
> comes another question, how do people test/stress/prep the server for
> RHEL AS 4.4 installation?
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFFGeyoStycsG+K8ksRAvLoAJ9OJYCtnuwb5jxi/xX2FVq7CK5uTQCfZ3uQ
ZH3uYYpJyUut7tRfo/IfnnE=
=X3uY
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



More information about the Ale mailing list