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Date:      Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:55:37 +0100
From:      lars <lars@gmx.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting a new server
Message-ID:  <20060201195537.GA11816@storage.mine.nu>
In-Reply-To: <43E0DD60.8060208@mac.com>
References:  <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> <43E0DD60.8060208@mac.com>

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Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> If you're buying new hardware, pretty much anything has enough CPU to handle the
> reader side; the spamfiltering and virus scanning will be more CPU-intensive.
> Dual-3GHz Xeon's with 2GB of RAM?  Your normal candidates, Dell, HP, IBM, all
> have reasonably similar models (PowerEdge 28x0, HP DL370/380, etc) which will do just fine for this sort of thing.
I'd go for an Opteron system, they have a lot more (3-4 times) 
I/O than Xeon systems and they're cooler.

But some companies, like HP, make it hard to get an Opteron
system, for reasons unclear to me.



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