[rescue] comapq or dell??

[Andrew Weiss]

I'm not sure about compaq, but Dell treats service providers like 
end-users in terms of service parts availability.  Their part numbering 
schemes are incredibly inconsistent... constantly changing and some 
part numbers don't work anymore.  So far I have found IBM and HP have 
the best service provider support and IBM is hands-down the best IA32 
server vendor.

Andrew

On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 03:57 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>
> I disagree.  Dell will bite you in the ass on "special" parts (like
> drive brackets, and little OEM-invented FRUs) far less often than
> HewletDECompaqard.  Compaq also likes to make lots of their own parts,
> which makes compatibility a hell once Compaq thinks you need to 
> upgrade.
> Dell mainly just rebadges stuff.