Re: CentOS on Compaq Proliant Rackmount Servers -- whoa!

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I'm not saying SATA is faster than anything, just that from experience I 
have seen that a Generic machine with a 2.3+ Celeron, Athalon or p4 with 
  SATA drives is much faster that an older Compaq with all the good 
drives etc. An example of this is that we had a quad 800mhz Xeon ML570, 
2gig RAM with a whole swag of scsi drives running RHEL 2.1 and Oracle. 
This machine ran Oracle queries at 1/2 the speed of my test server that 
was a 2.4 Celeron with a single 120 SATA and 1G RAM. The Dell 1750 (dual 
3.2 Xeon, 4G RAM, 3 x u320 146 in raid 5) that I replaced the ML570 with 
runs Oracle transactions around 10 times faster.

I personally run my own email on a dual 733 DL380g1 and it run's fine. 
But the point is, if you need any real processing power you might be 
better of buying one of the new generation of low end servers like the 
PE750.



Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Tony Wicks <tonyw@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Whoa!
> 
> Who said U160 SCSI was faster than SATA?  That's a common farce!
> In fact, it's the whole reason why SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is coming
> about.  SAS can even use SATA drives.
> 

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