Re: What HW / OS is recommeded

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:28:22 -0500, Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>"a" == alex  <alex@meerkatsoft.com> writes:
>>
>>a> We are currently looking at Dell / HP
>>a> but the questions is
>>
>>a> - how many processors (2 or 4)
>>a> - do we gain with 4 cpus if we probably never have a few users connected
>>a> - what processors are recommended  Opteron / Xeon / Itanium
>>a> - how much memory ?  2GB ? 4GB ?
>>a> - Disks, i guess we go with Raid5, 15k SCSI
>>a> - what OS ? Suse / RHE3 / Fedora /
>>a> - Disk controller ?
>>
>>Run, do not walk, from your Dell solution.  I've never been able to
>>get "expected" performance from those boxes.  They seem to do
>>something to the RAID controllers to make them not work as fast as one
>>would expect the equivalent name-brand part (eg, LSI RAID card or
>>Adaptec RAID card) and similar disk drives.
> 
> 
> Hate to burst your bubble, but the RAID controller that Dell ships is
> an Adaptec OEM.  Dell just rebrands them.

Dell is known for having their own 'version' of hardware made, 
specifically to reduce the cost of the machines.  I don't know that this 
is the case with this adapter, but I would not ever purchase another 
dell machine.

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Until later, Geoffrey