Hi Guys,
Does Dell keep statistics on Mean Time Between Failures for their system boards? I purchased this $30K machine back int 2012, and the system board has failed 4 times. Most recently yesterday. I cannot tell you now frustrating this is to have my most expensive server be also my most unreliable. This machine was meant to be my rock-solid workhorse, and run almost the entire company. It's embarrassing to say that rather than run critical processes on this R910 with ESXi 6.0 u2, I am using SuperMicro Pizza boxes running CENTOS with KVM.
Why do I have to do this? In order to protect myself from making the same embarrassing decision in the future please tell me that there are failure statistics that I can have access to regarding the system boards.
In the meantime I will be running my SuperMicros and avoiding any new expensive Dell machines, even though my company officers still think Dell is a better product.