In the last episode (Apr 04), JW said: > On Thursday 04 April 2002 09:48 am, you wrote: > > I think you'll find that the RISC systems have fewer processors and > > run at lower clockspeeds for the same total performance. 100k is a > > HUGE amount of money to drop on a system. You could get 2 full > > racks of high performance 1U systems, including everything, for > > less, but whatever! > > ^^^^ did you mean to say "You could get 2 full racks of high > performance 1U x86 systems" ? Or are you saying I should get several > smaller systems either way?
Heh. plus the maintenence nightmare of managing 48 servers, 96 mirrored boot disks, 96 power supplies, etc etc.. A comparable system to the Dell link you pasted is the Sun Fire v880. For $120k, you get 8x750mhz Ultrasparc III CPUs, 32GB of RAM, and 12 36gb fibrechannel disks. Those are 64-bit CPUs with 8MB of cache (compared to the 32bit Xeons w/2M you'd get with the Dell), and should easily outperform the Dell box. http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=71713 -- Dan "sql,query" Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
