Christiaan Willemsen wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Richard Elling wrote: >> It should cost less than a RAID array... >> Advertisement: Sun's low-end servers have 16 DIMM slots. > > Sadly, those are by far more expensive than what I have here from our > own server supplier... >
ok, that pushed a button. Let's see... I just surfed the 4 major server vendors for their online store offerings without logging in (no discounts applied). I was looking for a 64 GByte 1-2U rack server with 8 internal disk drives. Due to all of the vendors having broken stores, in some form or another, it was difficult to actually get an exact, orderable configuration, but I was able to come close. Requirements: redundant power supplies, 8x 146 GByte 10k rpm disks, 64 GBytes of RAM, 4 cores of some type, no OS (I'll use OpenSolaris, thank you :-) All prices in USD. IBM - no 1-2U product with 64 GByte memory capacity, the x3650 line have only 12 slots available until you get to the 4U servers. Didn't make the first cut. But for the record, if you want it at 48 GBytes, $10,748, and if you could add 16 GBytes more, it would come in at around $12,450... not bad. HP - DL380 G5 looks promising. Site had difficulty calculating the price, but it cruised in at $23,996. Dell - PowerEdge 2970 seemed to be the most inexpensive, at first. But once configured (store showed configuration errors, but it seems to be a bug in the error reporting itself). $21,825. Sun - X4150 is actually 1U while the others are 2U. Store would only allow me to configure 60 GBytes -- 1 pair of DIMMs were 2 GByte. I'm sure I could get it fully populated with a direct quote. $12,645. The way I see it, for your solution Sun offers the best value by far. But more importantly, it really helps to shop around for these x64 boxes. I was quite surprised to find Sun's price to be nearly half of HP and Dell... -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
