On 9/12/07, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just to confirm -- why do you say "[Opteron] will have 2X as many > disks"? In the dual-Opteron setup above I have 2 hard disks with > RAID1, whereas in the single-Xeon quad-core setup I have 4 disks with > RAID 10. He didn't say that. Read his comment again. He said the opteron may have a lead in terms of CPU/RAM performance, but that the ASUS will have double the disk which may more than make up for that. Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match