On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:56, Greg Twyford wrote: > I've yet to see a medical centre prepared to spring for two good > servers. One is hard enough. I had a win in April with a HP G4 series > bundle with 3.2GHz Xeon, dual processor capability, SCSI RAID 1 and > redundant everything for $5k. Goes very well, we'll see what happens > with MD3, though.
Guess it is difficult to say what is "good". Too much money is spent on - too powerful processors (a 3.2 GHz Xeon is surely an overkill for anything less than 20 clients connected simultaneously, and an Athlon64 would deliver superior processor power while producing substantially less heat) - too powerful graphics adapters that do nothing else but generate lots of heat on servers that shouldn't have a display attached in the first place. Too little money is spent on - RAM (surgeries usually need MORE on the servers), - quality power supplies, - quality switches SCSI is not providing any value for money any more when compared to SATA, and the way to go nowadays are external autonomous SATA RAID boxes which require no drivers etc. and can simply be plugged into the eSATA connector of a diskless spare server in case of server failure Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
