Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3

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Leigh Dyer wrote:
Luke Lonergan wrote:

Leigh,

On 4/5/06 9:23 PM, "Leigh Dyer" <leigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We've got a Sun Fire V40z and it's quite a nice machine -- 6x 15krpm
drives, 4GB RAM, and a pair of Opteron 850s. This gives us more than
enough power now for what we need, but it's nice to know that we can
shoehorn a lot more RAM, and up it to eight CPU cores if needed.


We have one of these too - ours is signed by Scott McNealy.

Nice :)

The newer Sun Opteron systems look nice too, but unless you're using
external storage, their little 2.5" hard drives may not be ideal.


Yes - but they end-of-lifed the V20z and V40z!

That's quite disappointing to hear -- our V40z isn't even six months old! We're not a big company, so external storage solutions are outside our price range, but we still wanted a nice brand-name box, and the V40z was a great deal compared to smaller boxes like the HP DL385.

One big problem with the sun line in general is the tiny internal storage
capacity - already too small on the V40z at 5/6 drives, now ridiculous at 4
SAS drives on the galaxy series.

I'm sure those little SAS drives would be great for web servers and other non-IO-intensive tasks though -- I'd love to get some X4100s in to replace our Poweredge 1750s for that. It's a smart move overall IMHO, but it's certainly not great for database serving.



I notice that Supermicro have recently brought out some Opteron systems, they are hiding them here:

http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/


The 4U's have 8 SATA/SCSI drive bays - maybe still not enough, but better than 6!

Cheers

Mark





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