Re: What HW / OS is recommeded

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:28:22 -0500, Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com> wrote:
> >>>>> "a" == alex <alex(at)meerkatsoft(dot)com> writes:
>
> a> We are currently looking at Dell / HP
> a> but the questions is
>
> a> - how many processors (2 or 4)
> a> - do we gain with 4 cpus if we probably never have a few users connected
> a> - what processors are recommended Opteron / Xeon / Itanium
> a> - how much memory ? 2GB ? 4GB ?
> a> - Disks, i guess we go with Raid5, 15k SCSI
> a> - what OS ? Suse / RHE3 / Fedora /
> a> - Disk controller ?
>
> Run, do not walk, from your Dell solution. I've never been able to
> get "expected" performance from those boxes. They seem to do
> something to the RAID controllers to make them not work as fast as one
> would expect the equivalent name-brand part (eg, LSI RAID card or
> Adaptec RAID card) and similar disk drives.

Hate to burst your bubble, but the RAID controller that Dell ships is
an Adaptec OEM. Dell just rebrands them.

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