Comments on: First Look: Dell PowerEdge R510 rackmount server

By: abhi

abhi — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:22:59 +0000

good

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:54:13 +0000

thermo fans, of course – a bit quieter than the 1Us but by no means as quiet as my xw6600. They are built ot be server-room boxes.

By: Niall Taylor

Niall Taylor — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:14:07 +0000

Steve – do these still sound like Heathrow-in-a-box when burbling along? I’m looking to replace my rather old server at home, but so far haven’t come across anything sensibly quiet to put in the closet (keeps my housemate awake!). If all else fails, I’ll be doing the usual and relying on an upgraded workstation spec machine, pretty much.

By: fit-flops

fit-flops — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:29:41 +0000

Hello I am also using the HP but the feature of Dell also seems to be promising and I can say it’s gonna give tough competition to HP and other well known brands.

By: Bluespider

Bluespider — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:21:38 +0000

Its at time slike this that you know you are a geek…
When you get a shudder of excitement up your spine about consolidating 5 servers onto one new one and using less than a tenth of the current.

Personally I think both companies do some good stuff, Dell look like they are ahed this month, who knows for next month?

By: James White

James White — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:54:49 +0000

They look interesting, however, I recently bought a 1U R610 and I specced up the R510 the same and the R510 is much more expensive! Considering the higher spec and lower power consumption of the R610, I’m not sure what Dell are playing at.
The R610 is an absolutely brilliant server, the best Dell has ever produced in my opinion.

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:14:07 +0000

It’s not a move. If HP come up with soemthing they think I should see, then I’ll write about that – I had about 6 years out of the LP2000R’s without so much as a burp, so I’ve hardly given up on them. It was just the comparison in horsepower I wanted to hilight – not the brands.

I find that a lot of people buy Dell workstations and then HP servers, because there are some tightly priced Dell desktops – then they extrapolate from those to the server range, and that’s why they go HP. Personally, I’m pretty much even between the two once inside the server room.

By: alan

alan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:22:54 +0000

Any particular reason you’ve moved from HP to Dell?

I’m a Hp man myself and wouldn’t consider for a second moving to the dark side.