Vivek, Thanks for your feedback. Which Dell server did you purchase? The client has a PowerEdge 2600 and they STILL want Dell. Again, if it were my pocketbook, Dell would not be there. The client has a 30GB DB. This is large for me, but probably not with you. Also, I am advising the client to go to a 10+ disc array (from 3) and enough RAM to load half the DB into memory. Steve On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:22 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jun 13, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Steve Poe wrote: > > > > > Can anyone share what their experience has been with Intel's dual core > > CPUs and/or Dell's new servers? > > I'm one of the few Dell fans around here... but I must say that I > don't buy them for my big DB servers specifically since they don't > currently ship Opteron based systems. (I did call and thank my sales > rep for pushing my case for them to do Opterons, though, since I'm > sure they are doing it as a personal favor to me :-) ) > > I just put up a pentium-D dual-core based system and it is pretty > wickedly fast. it only has a pair of SATA drives on it and is used > for pre-production testing. > > > > > I am hoping the client is willing to wait for Dell to ship a AMD > > Opeteron-based server. > > Don't wait. It will be *months* before that happens. Go get a Sun > X4100 and an external RAID array and be happy. These boxes are an > amazing work of engineering. >
