[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jerry Yu wrote:
> I am tasked to purchase a few Dell PowerEdge servers, cheap. Dell outlet
> seems to be a natual choice. I wonder if any ALEr wants to share his/her
> experience with 'scratch/dent' versus 'certified refurbished'.   A good
> bargain comes & goes so fast on their site. Any known trick to pull to
> ensure I get what I want w/o refreshing the page every so often 
> (manually or
> using curl)?
> I heard some horror stories about other outlets simply stamp their returned
> servers as 'certified' w/o going through really fixing up. Thus comes
> another question, how do people test/stress/prep the server for RHEL
> AS 4.4installation?

I have no personal experience with Dell servers, but the view I get from 
the various tech lists I'm on, their hardware sucks.  Based on that, I 
would never purchase Dell hardware.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin