On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:20:17PM -0400, Adam Nelson wrote: > Where'd you get it. I've had bad experiences with generic machines but > I'll take a peak if you send the link? > > There are a couple of things I didn't mention > > 2U Form Factor with tool-less rails > Redundant Power Supply > Redundant Fans (any 2 fans can go) > Battery Backed RAID for full commit even on abrupt power loss > dual Gbit ethernet > Remote Console/Power administration without Operating System > 400 MHz FSB > DVD-ROM > All drive are hot swap > Fully supported and tested on RedHat Linux ES 2.1 (no weird hardware > bugs) > > The last one is worth 5k alone. I've had generic machines just freeze > from some weird kernel incompatibility with a raid card. With 30 > machines though, you can afford to lose one. For me, with 1 or 2, I > cannot and must get the best.
Yeah, we use DL-320s, DL-360s, and DL-380s in some cases as DB servers. The 380s are quite nice, but they're not cheap either. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.13: up 15 days, processed 512,900,100 queries (372/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
