Mark Kirkwood wrote:
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.
Excuse me for this off topic, but i notice that you are very excited
about the sun's hardware, what os do you install on them , slowlaris?,
has that os improved in some espectacular way that i should take a look
again?, i used it until solaris 9 and the performance was horrible.
im a happy freebsd user now (using hp and dell hardware though)
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Miguel
