Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: "Anjan Dave" <adave(at)vantage(dot)com>, "William Yu" <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)
Date: 2005-04-20 17:10:05
Message-ID: 874qe1e5n6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:

> Last I checked, the v40z only takes 5 drives, unless you yank the cd-rom and
> get an extra disk tray. That's the main defect of the model, the second
> being its truly phenominal noise level. Other than that (and price) and
> excellent Opteron machine.

Incidentally, Sun sells a bunch of v20z and v40z machines on Ebay as some kind
of marketing strategy. You can pick one up for only a slightly absurd price if
you're happy with the configurations listed there. (And if you're in the US).

--
greg

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