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Anyone got links to good db server boxes, not rackmount though?
Include any for HP, Gateway, etc.
It's the components that matter moreso than the sticker on the front of the box.
Presently, I have a Dell 6600 PowerEdge (I think that's the model) named "hathi" (apparently that's Hindi for "elephant") under my desk; 4 Pentium IV's, 12 72GB drives, 8GB RAM, and one of those MegaRAID controllers that has been discussed lately. It's being used for "data warehouse" stuff, but I suspect it would make a better TP server than anything else we've got locally.
Heh.. "hathi" is quite right description for that..:-)
From what I read on postgresql lists, it seems that opteron based machines are doing quite a good job as database server with right kind of disk. You could look at any such machine for database server..
Check this..
http://www.polywell.com/us/rackservers/poly1u2c.asp http://www.opteronics.com/opteron-servers.htm
IMO they could be better machine for databases. Get a 64 bit linux kernel and run 32 bit postgresql on it. Should work like a charm..
HTH
Shridhar
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