On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 08:53:02 pm Frank DiMitri wrote: > > I am about to order the parts for the next machine, also to run xen, > > an opteron x6 2.6GHZ 4180 with the supermicro motherboard. > > $210 cpu, $283 mbd, and a cooler master case for $80 or $90. > > The case can have up to 8 sata drives, e.g. 8 x 2TB = 16TB. > > Why not a G34/8 core system? The CPU is barely any more expensive (6128), > should be a little faster for heavily threaded stuff (ie multiple VMs, > over-assigning VMs). It's only 2.0GHz x 8core - but it does have quad > channel memory where the 4100 series only has dual channel. > > SATA drives? Yuck!
What do you prefer instead? Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) ? -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 2 - Zimbra Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6
