Does anyone have good experiences with a dell poweredge 1550? How reliable is it? Im thinking of getting it with 1.13ghz, serverworks chipset, 512 Ram, single 18gb 10k scsi. Price is about $1300.

Does anyone know what make and model the harddrive that comes with it is? Cant seem to find the specs anywhere. Anypoint going to the 15k rpm hd?

And, how hard/easy would it be to upgrade (add cpu, scsi hard disk, raid, etc)

Oh, and what is Dells support like? Is the basic bronze support pretty good?

I can't tell you how many 1550s we run, but we have racks and racks of them :)

They are awesome work horses! The thing that is great about them is that you can run 3 drives for RAID 5 in a 1U form factor. CPUs, HDs, Memory, etc are easy to replace and all are top name (Seagate, Micro, etc). I just pulled a HD and it's a Seagate 10K Utra160 drive (sometime they ship with Fugitsu drives). Dell's support is incredible, but we have our own support team which gets us past all the Level 1 stuff and straight to our team who knows our configs.

You will not regret buying this machine! Hope that helps.

Good to know cause were getting one :)

Dell has outstanding products and a terrific support/partnering system. You won't be disappointed.

Thanks for the info mike ;)
On a sidenote, does it void the warranty if you upgrade on your own (example - memory,cpu,hard disk)?

On a sidenote, does it void the warranty if you upgrade on your own (example - memory,cpu,hard disk)?I really cannot answer that because I don't know the real answer, but we buy memory & hard drives on our own and have not voided a warranty yet :)

Thanks for the info Mike. :agree: