Re: Optimizing disk throughput on quad Opteron

Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>> If I had $50k budget, I'd be buying the SunFire X4500 and running
>>> Solaris + ZFS on it. However, you're limited to 2 dual core Opterons,
>>> it seems.
>>
>> The HP 585 will give you quad dual core :)
>
> but can you sling the bits to and from the disk as fast as the X4500?
> the speed numbers on the i/o of the x4500 are mind-numbing.

Honestly, I don't know. I can tell you that they perform VERY well for
us (as do the 385s). I have deployed about several 385s and 585s with
the MSA30s over the last 6 months and have not been disappointed yet.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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