[clue-tech] Need new hardware (was two monitors)

[William]

erik at ezolan.com wrote:

>>Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>>A repeat of a similar response posted a few moments ago.  If you want
>>expandability and upgradability (and awesome support) from Dell, buy an
>>XPS.  It doesn't get any better.
>>    
>>
>
>Hm, their regular sized PC, the XPS 400 has this note "The XPS 400
>supports up to two hard drives". Even their top of the line 1800$ XPS 600
>only goes up to 3.
>
>Considering that he wants to use at least 4 hard drives, the XPS's aren't
>feasable. Actually, short of a server, I'd be surprised if any Dell PC
>could handle 4 hard drives. Didn't think of that.
>  
>
If you read a tad more carefully, you'll see clearly that I was 
responding to, and quoting from, only Angelo who made no mention of 
needing 4 HDDs.  Angelo was discussing a workstation, not a server.  In 
this light, I hope "Didn't think of that." was a remark made to yourself 
(which would be a visible, though unnecessary, muse), and not to any of 
us (which would be ignorant and deliberately insulting).

In any event, Dell Servers come with service contracts equivalent to XPS 
workstations.  At work, we are exclusively Dell, where our priority 
level gets us same-day, on-site hardware support, always (though we 
can't really "open the boxes" ourselves, except to add Dell upgrade 
components -- not that we want/need to do anything else).