There have been some discussions on this list and others in general about Dell's version of RAID cards, and server support, mainly linux support.
Before I venture into having another vendor in the shop I want to know if there are any dos/don't's about 4-way Opteron offerings from Sun and HP. Don't want to put the topic on a different tangent, but I would be interested in the discussion of AMD Vs. XEON in terms of actual products available today. Thanks, Anjan -----Original Message----- From: Christian Sander Røsnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:14 PM To: Bruce Momjian Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?) On Wednesday 20 April 2005 17:50, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Anjan Dave wrote: > > In terms of vendor specific models - > > > > Does anyone have any good/bad experiences/recommendations for a 4-way > > Opteron from Sun (v40z, 6 internal drives) or HP (DL585 5 internal > > drives) models? > > > > This is in comparison with the new Dell 6850 (it has PCIexpress, faster > > FSB 667MHz, which doesn't match up with AMD's total IO bandwidth, but > > much better than previous 6650s). > > Dell cuts too many corners to be a good server. Hi Which corners do Dell cut compared to the competition ? Thanks Christian ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend