| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Anjan Dave <adave(at)vantage(dot)com> |
| Cc: | William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?) |
| Date: | 2005-04-20 15:50:26 |
| Message-ID: | 200504201550.j3KFoQr21758@candle.pha.pa.us |
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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.
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