I see Micro Center is promoting AMD 8-core CPUs starting at $200
(FX-8120 $200, FX-8150 $260):
http://www.microcenter.com/storefronts/amd/Expired/FX_assets/fx_index.html
They seem to be marketing them to D-I-Y builders of performance
desktops, but I'm wondering if these are any good for servers.
As for servers, I think this part is a win. My only reservation would be
the 2:1 core vs math processor ratio (2 CPU cores per one floating point
unit)
For servers, you need cores. The part has 8 of them, so no matter how well
the 6 core sandy bridge intel part does, this will do 25% better
On 02/04/2012 01:54 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
Best I've seen is motoblur on certain Motorola Android phones...
I am trying to get FB, Twitter...and 3 Google accounts all sync'ed up.
I have a phone with Motoblur and I actually find it annoying the way
it pulls in a pile of
Of course it depends on what the servers are doing. But I know And has
always been great for budget servers. Unlike Intel they don't gimp their
desktop processors when it come to things like ecc support. Atleast the
did not use to. But for most mundane server tasks an 8 core amd should be
more
On Feb 4, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
Interesting. Steve Gibson, author of SpinRite, likewise swears by
Hitachi drives. And I too wondered how that squares with the mediocre to
bad reviews they seem to get on NewEgg. Enterprise vs. consumer drives?
Hm. Nope. I double-checked the
For some reason using Firefox 10.1 on Fedora 16 when I log into gmail
(both mail.gmail.com and the BLU Gapps) I have to click on basic HTML
mode to view gmail.
All other websites come in fine.
Speedtest.net is showing me as 35.62 Mbps/5.52 Mbps.
This is just after upgrading from Firefox 9 to
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Ross
Assuming you're asking about ZFS (RAID-Z)...
It will use the increased capacity if and when all the drives are
replaced with larger ones.
Depending on the OS and the
On Feb 4, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Depending on the OS and the version of zpool,
man zpool
search for autoexpand property
I expect to use FreeNAS 8 (FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS v.15). Responses here have
given me sufficient information to feed to Google. The process in a
I have an old portable 100MB Zip drive that's looking for a home, along
with 10 Zip disks. It connects to a host via parallel port (I think it
also works with a DB-25 SCSI port). If anyone could use such a beast,
and can come pick it up in Woburn, please let me know.
Nathan
