Tony Wicks wrote: > I run Centos on Compaq dl380g1/2/3's and Dell servers. While the Compaqs > are strong hardware they are old and frankly the performance compared to > modern (cheap or otherwise) hardware is not really that impressive. A > dual 1 gig P3 dl380 and ultra 3 scsi drives get significantly out > performed by a generic celeron with software raid SATA drives. I firmly > believe the best value for money and performance is the Dell Poweredge > 750 with hardware raid SATA drives. The PE 750 is cheap and installs out > of the box (Centos 3 and 4), performes flawlessly and is extremely fast. > Do you buy your hardware SATA Raid from DELL? > John Hinton wrote: > >> Robert Hanson wrote: >> >>> Greetings! >>> >>> I wish to thank everyone for their testimony regarding this "CentOS on >>> Compaq Proliant Rackmount Servers" thread. >>> >>> The basics have been answered and I am grateful. >>> >>> Even though I can fund brand new shiny latest greatest fastest I >>> think it is >>> a foolish waste of money unless there is a true "need". >>> >>> >> Yup, it's a shame to waste expensive horsepower if you don't need it >> and most web stuff doesn't use a lot of horsepower.. Buy a bit above >> your needs. Quality over horsepower as well, has been my philosophy. >> >>> Is it currently worth getting used dual PIII 1850R's or should I >>> start with >>> used dual PIII DL380's and like 1Ghz minimum processor speed? >>> >>> -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.