Comments on: Dell layoffs: inevitable http://www.chrisblanc.org/blog/information-technology/2008/04/02/dell-layoffs-inevitable/ fiction and technology Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: MadNess http://www.chrisblanc.org/blog/information-technology/2008/04/02/dell-layoffs-inevitable/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 MadNess Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:00:45 +0000 http://www.chrisblanc.org/blog/information-technology/2008/04/02/dell-layoffs-inevitable/#comment-1045 Dell's servers have usually been good, but in the last year of ordering high quality servers I've personally seen at least few issues including a bad NIC card that thrashed a network to oblivion, and another box with the RAID formatted just flat out wrong (along the lines of 'why does this linux install report 80GB when it should be showing 2TB for my data store?? the multiple drives are all here...'). That said I have been using one of their higher-end laptops for two years+ and it has been fantastic. Dell’s servers have usually been good, but in the last year of ordering high quality servers I’ve personally seen at least few issues including a bad NIC card that thrashed a network to oblivion, and another box with the RAID formatted just flat out wrong (along the lines of ‘why does this linux install report 80GB when it should be showing 2TB for my data store?? the multiple drives are all here…’).

That said I have been using one of their higher-end laptops for two years+ and it has been fantastic.

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