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
