@Dashrender said:

This is Dell - perhaps you don't want to run away from them because you know their hardware is good or even great - but these 'people' who are trying to sell you their solution just need to be fired and a new team who will sell you what you tell them you want can be sub'ed in.

It's not dell, It's a re-seller that sells from most manufacturers not just dell. They account executive's (two of them) are the one's making the recommendations.

@RojoLoco said:

You should avoid that reseller at all costs... they are clearly inept and driven by sales commission.

That's my thought but we are on a team. I don't make the calls by myself.

We are looking to replace 6-12 SANs. The VAR which is having us look at Dell, EMC, and Nimble options. When they gave us the quote it was for running it at RAID 5. They say that running RAID 6/60 is "old storage technologies" and RAID 5 is the way to go with the newer arrays. (not all flash based only 1-2 SSDs for cache).

I don't think that's true I've given them the facts but they still say RAID 5 is the best option. Is there a consultant we can hire who does not deal sales at all in their company to give us good recommendations?