Hi all, After a recent fire in one of our data centres, it's time to go shopping. As I've had many problems in the past trying to get half-decent performance out of the drive controllers in Dell servers, I'd like to know what others' experiences are.
I don't need anything spectacular, but I'd like to have a dozen or so people able to load their Word docs at the same time without it grinding to a halt. Annoyingly I can get great performance out of Dell desktop PCs with the same kernel version, just not out of the servers I've had in the past. Mostly this seems to be caused by the disks being connected to an awful hardware RAID controller, but I don't think Dell offer any servers using the same onboard Intel SATA controllers that work really well on desktop PCs. Haven't yet had a server with SAS disks, but as they all go through a hardware RAID controller I'm a little dubious... So any suggestions/experience would be much appreciated! Many thanks, Adam. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
