On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
4 x 147GB 15000 rpm SCSI in RAID 10 with 320-1 RAID CARD + 64MB cache BBU
2x Intel Xeon E5405 / 4x 2.00GHz / 1333MHz FSB / 12MB cache
6GB RAM
Cost around 2320 GBP -- it would be great to get it under 2000
Needs to be in the UK.
I would be grateful for any comments. I'm particularly out of date about
the best processors to go for. DNUK also have Opteron as an option.
That sounds pretty good. It should run postgres fairly well, especially if
you have quite a few parallel queries coming in. You won't need a bigger
BBU cache if it's read-heavy. You'll have eight CPU cores, which is good.
And RAID 10 is good.
As for Intel/AMD, I think they're neck-and-neck at the moment. Both are
fast.
Of course, we over here have no idea how much actual read traffic there
will be, so you may be massively over-providing or it may be woefully
inadequate, but this machine looks like a fairly good buy for the price.
Matthew
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