William Yu wrote: > Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > >> The present server is a 2GHz Pentium 4/512 KB cache with 2 >> software-raided ide disks (Maxtors) and 1GB of RAM. >> >> >> I have been offered the following 1U server which I can just about >> afford: >> >> 1U server >> Intel Xeon 2.8GHz 512K cache 1 >> 512MB PC2100 DDR ECC Registered 2 >> 80Gb SATA HDD 4 >> 4 port SATA card, 3 ware 8506-4 1 >> 3 year next-day hardware warranty 1 > > You're not getting much of a bump with this server. The CPU is > incrementally faster -- in the absolutely best case scenario where your > queries are 100% cpu-bound, that's about ~25%-30% faster.
What about using Dual Athlon MP instead of a Xeon? Would be much less expensive, but have higher performance (I think). > > If you could use that money instead to upgrade your current server, > you'd get a much bigger impact. Go for more memory and scsi (raid > controllers w/ battery-backed cache). ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
