Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)

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:christian(at)aspiro(dot)no]
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:14 PM
To: Bruce Momjian
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)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

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