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> My experience with Dell has been the opposite. Yes, Dell does sometimes overcharge but it depends
> entirely on what systems you are spec'ing, the entity doing the purchasing (company, university,
> self, etc...), and any contracts your company or university already has with them. I just completed
> a bid process a couple of weeks ago for a 12 TB 16 core server and Dell was very competitive with
> Supermicro. I've heard the same thing about Dell's competitive pricing from colleagues at other
> institutions as well. I'm not trying to push Dell over other options, but I think it is a mistake
> to exclude them from the start.
You probably got good pricing being in a large enterprise situation,
but someone who is just starting out is not likely to get good pricing.
I work at a large company during the day that gets large discounts from
Dell because they buy a lot of equipment from them, but at Suso I barely
got a discount at all from them and they were always much more expensive
than the equivilent Supermicro system. Especially higher end systems
with more redundancy, more RAM, more drives, etc. And for something
like a 12TB 16 core server you are likely to get really ripped off.
Here is an option for a server hard drive from Dell's website just now:
1TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3Gbps 3.5-in Cabled Hard Drive [$449.00]
From Newegg:
Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA Drive - $159.99
So with 12 drives that's $3480 overpaid.
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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
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