Dell PowerEdge 6400

Pros: Customizable, Fast, brand name hardware, rack mountable
Cons: cable issues, cable arm is weak, face plate is more useful when broken off

Having worked with 15 of these servers in the data center (having rack mounted, installed, and configured 8 of them over a 3 month period), I am very thankful for Dell's obvious planning, thought to real-life design, and comprehensive support or I am not...

Pros: EASY to troubleshoot hardware, good chassis design
Cons: may be a little more than some of the competition, may have long wait for tech support during busy season

As there was only one other opinion on this Dell Poweredge server, I thought I would write another about this server.

First off the other person's opinion (kims) about having up to 10 hard drives in the chassis is true, HOWEVER, 8 will be on...

Pros: reliable, low price, good support
Cons: none

We now have 5 of the Dell 6400 servers at our company,
3 run NetWare 5.1, one NT4, one Win2000server. Our first
Dell server, a 6300 running NetWare 5.1, is now almost two years old. Only problems have been OS related, and once when adding a HP...

Pros: Expandability and flexibility
Cons: No way to stop people from pullung drives out!

I work for a large Company at a small site so I need to purchase my hardware as frugaly as possible. i purchased my 6400 server thru the dell out ie refurbished. It came with Dual 550 Xeon processors 3 power supplies 4Gb of RAM 128 Mb caching raid...

Pros: 133mhz front side bus and up to 10 harddrives
Cons: Doesn't have Ultra 160 support like the 4400

This server is great for the larger applications, databases, clusters, and storage area networks! When looking for reliability and maximum uptime for your buck, think no further than clustering two of these guys together! You can start out with two of...