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

From: Christian Sander Røsnes <christian(at)aspiro(dot)no>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)
Date: 2005-04-20 16:14:12
Message-ID: 200504201814.12633.christian@aspiro.no
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On Wednesday 20 April 2005 17:50, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Anjan Dave wrote:
> > In terms of vendor specific models -
> >
> > Does anyone have any good/bad experiences/recommendations for a 4-way
> > Opteron from Sun (v40z, 6 internal drives) or HP (DL585 5 internal
> > drives) models?
> >
> > This is in comparison with the new Dell 6850 (it has PCIexpress, faster
> > FSB 667MHz, which doesn't match up with AMD's total IO bandwidth, but
> > much better than previous 6650s).
>
> Dell cuts too many corners to be a good server.

Hi

Which corners do Dell cut compared to the competition ?

Thanks

Christian

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