----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > >> Not in my neck of the woods, Sun have always been most competitive. > > > > You find Sun to be a better deal than Supermicro? Especially, > > when you're sticking a very large number of disks into it, and > > can't source the diskless caddies elsewhere? > > My few little cents here. <snip/>
We just got some supermicros with 2x12core opterons stuffed with 4GB chips (64GB total per box) and it cost us less than EUR 20k for all three of them. As I work for a research institute, we have some discounts from HP et al, but they didn't get remotely close. Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
