Brent Baisley wrote:
If you do go the new hardware route, I wouldn't go with SCSI is you
only have $2K to spend. S-ATA2 based drives would give you similar
performance to SCSI, but at a big cost savings. SCSI's big
performance advantage was in command queueing which SATA2 drives now
have.
Dell? No, I wouldn't buy Dell. Simply because they don't sell AMD
based systems. The dual core AMD chips with the built-in memory
controller are very nice.
I agree with the S-ATA2 recommendation. However, I have a large cluster
of Dell Poweredge systems running Red Hat Linux, Apache, an application
server and MySQL-Cluster and it performs flawlessly. And the
performance is fantastic. We did demo several AMD-based systems and
they just didn't seem to beat the Intel XEON's. We run mission
critical apps and we feel that Dell was a wise choice for overall ROI.
And with your budget, I'd definately strongly consider Dell.
Cory
SkyVantage Corporation
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