On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:50:35AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote: > stan wrote: > > >It's one of those "corporate political corectness" things. Management > >recognizes the nae, and if I sugest a "non name brand", I have to a +lot_ > >more expalining. > > > > > Ahh well, I figured it'd be something like that. In any case, we're > doing server side compression, and I can't stress enough that you'll > need tons of CPU horsepower on the backup box if you're backing up a > large number of systems. Usually, items from our disklist take about 1/4 > of the time to blow out to tape that they take to actually dump to the > holding disk, and the bottleneck is totally the server side compression. > Luckily, fast processors are cheap these days. ;)
Which sort of leads directly back to the original question. Which of the 2 bxes I mentioned originally would have the most CPU poweer? I'm failry certian it's the Ultra 40, but I could be wrong. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
