The Dell box has 1. Chassis with space for 6 disks 2. Xeon 2.4 GHz CPU 3. 32GB RAM 4. 4x 500 GB disks in RAID 6 5. price $5563
While I like RAM as much as the next person, very few DB servers really need 32GB of RAM. Especially since the DB size is 35 GB. RAID 6 is cool technology, but does not make sense with just 4 disks. There would be 2 data disks and 2 checksum disks. Every logical disk block write, would do 3x disk reads and 3x disk writes. You might consider something like this. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3344651&CatId=1206 It has 1. Chassis with space for 6 disks 2. Dual quad core AMD 2.0 GHz CPU (probably overkill, FYI I am CPU brand agnostic) 3. 8GB RAM (room for 32GB) 4. 3x 500 GB disks, I suggest mirroring 2 disks with the 3rd for a hot spare 5. price $2300 To spec out a system right, we really need more hard numbers from your current box. Like DB data cache hit ratio for its RAM size and disk % busy time. Perfmon is a great tool. Hope this helps, Brian Beuning George Woltman wrote: >>Brian Beuning wrote: >>C. My personal opinion is Dell is not a "reasonable cost" solution. >>(We built one DB server for much less than a Dell machine. >>Of course home built may not be as reliable. The requirements list >>cost as more important than reliable.) >> >> > >I think most GIMPS users view reliability as quite important - especially >after the great GIMPS server crash of October 2008. I'd be happy >to price similar systems from other vendors - any recommendations? >_______________________________________________ >Prime mailing list >[email protected] >http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > >__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature >database 4615 (20091117) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > >http://www.eset.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
