On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 12:45 -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 07:44 -0800, david@xxxxxxx wrote: >> >> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Robert Haas wrote: > >> > http://h71016.www7.hp.com/ctoBases.asp?oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=&ProductLineId=450&FamilyId=2570&LowBaseId=15222&LowPrice=$1,899.00&familyviewgroup=757&viewtype=Matrix >> > >> > Retail cost, 15k, 36GB drives, ~ 12k. A phone call and threat of buying >> > dell gets its for ~ 10k. >> >> I prefer to deal with companies that I don't have to horse trade with >> to get a good deal. You can threaten dell and get good deals, but if > > And what company would that be? There is zero major server manufacturer > that doesn't do the, "Oh you have a competitive bid... let's just lower > that quote for you" > > Note: HP can beat Dell, every time on an apples to apples quote. At > least when I have done it. Aberdeen inc, the one I listed in my previous response. Their on site price for a single quad core xeon, 8 gig 800MHZ ram and 24 15k5 SAS drives is $10,080 or so. I've never had to tell them I was getting a better price anywhere else. They just give me a great quote each time, they have very fast and efficient customer service, and they give a 5 year warranty on everything they custom build for you. I'm a very satisfied customer. BTW, they seem to have saved a fair bit of money and passed the savings along to you and me, by designing their website in one whole afternoon. :) Yeah, it's ugly, but it works well enough to get an idea what you want and then ask for a quote. We got our 8 core opteron 32 Gig ram areca 1680i and 16 15k4 Seagates for $11,000 or so at the end of summer. When we first plugged them in, one machine started hanging after 24-48 hours of steady load testing. CAlled them, they said it sounded like a RAID card and they'd ship me a new one next day business. Let me make it clear, I didn't tell them I thought it was the RAID card, or that I needed it the next day, they decided that's what it sounded like, and they shipped it to me, FOC. Arrived the next business day. Which was a monday. Between friday and monday I swapped the RAID controllers between the two machines, and after 36 hours of testing, the problem followed the RAID controller and the other machine locked up. Got the new controller, put it in and ran a week long test, no failures. We have since had one drive fail (each machine has two hot spares) and they cross shipped the replacement and we got it in 3 days. Few places have made me so happy with a decision to spend $22k on servers as these guys have. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
