Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:56:39 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: lars <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a new server Message-ID: <56FF8C02-F1EC-47E8-ABCF-E69D7A517581@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060201195537.GA11816@storage.mine.nu> References: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> <43E0DD60.8060208@mac.com> <20060201195537.GA11816@storage.mine.nu>
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On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:55 PM, lars wrote: > 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. Yes, this is entirely reasonable advice; the Opteron platform is a good choice as well. -- -Chuck
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