Dell PowerEdge 2850 & 3rd party memory

[Tino Schwarze]

Hi Derek,

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 04:24:25PM -0500, Derek Yuen wrote:

> I'm curious if anyone can speak to their experiences with 3rd party memory
> in Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers.
> 
> I've got a few 2850's that I'd love to upgrade memory for but I'd like to
> do so economically using "higher-quality" desktop memory from reputable
> manufacturers.

We've been using third party memory for several years now (when memory
from Dell used to be really expensive). Lately, we ordered some whopping
4x4 GB modules and they where so cheap, we didn't even bother to look
somewhere else.

We've had no problems so far with third party memory (apart from
ordering the wrong modules once - non-ECC won't work).

> Dell Support told me this practice is okay as long as I'd be willing to
> restore the old memory upon request (which I'd be happy to comply).

You need to adhere to the system's memory spec, e.g. you need ECC
memory.

HTH,

Tino.

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