On 1/30/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <
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These seem like reasonable systems, but the 1850 is actually a 1U system. The 2850 is the 2U. I'd lean towards the 2U system as we have more room to add drives as we can afford to. I configured it with an embedded RAID controller with three 73 GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration and it came out closer to $3500.
I am a little concerned about making a decision without some information on what traffic levels we should be expecting and a base system to compare against. Unfortunately, SF doesn't provide CVS statistics. We pretty much have one shot to get this right, if we find the system is under-powered we're stuck with an expensive mirror.
PowerEdge 850 (1u): Pentium D Dual core 3.2Ghz 2x1MB L2 Cache, 2GB 667MHz DDR
RAM, SATA Raid Controller, 2x250GB SATA 7200rpm Drives, 24x speed CD. Standard
next business day on site warranty support (nothing special) = $2744
PowerEdge 1850 (2u): 3Ghz Xeon 2MB L2 Cache x 2, 2GB 400Mhz DDR RAM, SCSI Raid
Controller, 2x146GB SCSI 10000rpm Drives, 24x speed CDROM. Standard next
business day on site warranty support (nothing special) = $4272
These seem like reasonable systems, but the 1850 is actually a 1U system. The 2850 is the 2U. I'd lean towards the 2U system as we have more room to add drives as we can afford to. I configured it with an embedded RAID controller with three 73 GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration and it came out closer to $3500.
I am a little concerned about making a decision without some information on what traffic levels we should be expecting and a base system to compare against. Unfortunately, SF doesn't provide CVS statistics. We pretty much have one shot to get this right, if we find the system is under-powered we're stuck with an expensive mirror.
Anyway - so what do you guys think? to me it seesm as if we have a target of
about $3500 to meet at this stage (we need some extra for shipping and
handling, and then some extra in the kitty for when warranty runs out and we
need new parts or we need to ship someone up to the server to fix it etc. or
whatever - i also just like over-estimating costs and coiming out with a
pleasant surprise)
This seems like a reasonable goal, and we can fish around for any available discounts or donations until we reach that point.
