Tower and Server have nothing to do with each other. Tower designates what
kind of case the computer is in. Server implies that it will be serving
'something' for a lack of words. (Web server, file server, application
server).
Depending on what kind of SCSI drive it is, you are looking at 40-80 MBps
transfer speed. ATA/100 (I believe) is something new that should have
throughput of about 100 MBps (I could be wrong). The differience in price
is that with a SCSI drive, you have a SCSI bus and requires all sorts of
different peripherals. SCSI bus = more expensive components.
Processor speeds.... dual 800 or dual 1 ghz. You aren't looking at that big
of an increase. Intel processors over 1 GhZ do not show the return in speed
as shown in the change in price. You are probably getting more out of the
dual 800's for the $$.
Memory. 512 is obviously a lot faster. If the server is going to be hit a
lot... I would probably want to go with the 512. Especially since you are
serving real video.
Hard drive space... this is just a question of how big does your server have
to be? I would imagine that if you are serving real video.. you might want
to go with a larger drive. 18 GB may be filled up rather quickly. But if
you know that 18 will last you awhile.. it might be sufficient.
When you look at it... you are really comparing apples and oranges. I think
that both would perform your services as needed. Both will handle the web
serving.
Price may be a crucial figure. Not sure how expensive these machines are...
but you also need to look at where you get them. For example, you mentioned
one is a "clone" and that to me means... bottom basement type machine.
Someone put the pieces together. If you are going to be doing some "huge"
hosting, you may want a guarantee on the product (so that it doesn't bomb
out on you.) If the SCSI server has a warranty... you might want to look
into that as well.
But I think I have detailed the differences between the key pieces. You
might want to look for something that compromises the two machines.
Let me know if you have any questions...
Chad
-----Original Message-----
From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 3:23 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Server for cf?
I need a new server... and had a couple of questions..
1. What is the difference between a "server" and "tower"?
2. How important is it to use SCSI drives vs. the new ATA/100 drives, which
are much cheaper?
It comes down to choices.. I could go for:
dell poweredge server with dual 800mhz pentium III with dual 18gig SCSI
drives and 256 megs ram
or
a "clone" - tower case, high quality power supply, dual 1,000mhz pentium
III with dual 40 gig ATA/100 drives and 512 megs ram.
Is the "server" designation and scsi drives worth getting lower ram and
processor speed?
I will use it for cold fusion / web server and also real video server.
I will be using Windows 2000 server - I assume that you can mirror ATA/100
drives with windows 2000? No?
Nothing really mission critical on the server.
I will be using the old web server as a SQL server. (dell poweredge dual
600mhz / 256 megs ram / dual 9 gig scsi drives) and retiring the current
sql server (Dell poweredge single 300mhz, 128 megs ram:)
thanks
Al Musella, DPM
Musella Foundation
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