On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:28:22 -0500, Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> wrote:
"a" == alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
a> We are currently looking at Dell / HP a> but the questions is
a> - how many processors (2 or 4) a> - do we gain with 4 cpus if we probably never have a few users connected a> - what processors are recommended Opteron / Xeon / Itanium a> - how much memory ? 2GB ? 4GB ? a> - Disks, i guess we go with Raid5, 15k SCSI a> - what OS ? Suse / RHE3 / Fedora / a> - Disk controller ?
Run, do not walk, from your Dell solution. I've never been able to get "expected" performance from those boxes. They seem to do something to the RAID controllers to make them not work as fast as one would expect the equivalent name-brand part (eg, LSI RAID card or Adaptec RAID card) and similar disk drives.
Hate to burst your bubble, but the RAID controller that Dell ships is an Adaptec OEM. Dell just rebrands them.
Dell is known for having their own 'version' of hardware made, specifically to reduce the cost of the machines. I don't know that this is the case with this adapter, but I would not ever purchase another dell machine.
-- Until later, Geoffrey
---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?
http://archives.postgresql.org
