dell poweredges suck, stile just got two 2650's and first off the BGE drivers for the gige ethernet didn't work correctly massive packet time outs. two problems. The main was delt with the new PCI-X busmaster? system that they use. Even with standard intel pro cards (fxp drivers) they had packet loss. it turns out that you have to apply some custom patches to the freebsd kernel and change some other modifications in the kernel source
so far we have been testing them for almost 24 hours and hope to see 0 packet loss and the testing finished. what a waste of time
for scsi drives seagate and fujitsu make good drives but IDE seagate is the best
