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Re: New LUGNET server hardware details
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 29 Feb 2004 04:52:52 GMT
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Todd Lehman <todd@lugnet.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Tim David wrote:
> > Interesting that the HDDs are serialATA rather than SCSI. [...]
> Matthew could answer this better than I, but my opinion is that the money is put
> to better use in ECC memory, and gobs of it. We're starting of with 1GB of RAM,
That summarizes it pretty well. SATA is something like five times cheaper
per byte, and that's not even counting that we'd need a more expensive
motherboard with a SCSI controller. Right now, disk isn't really the
bottleneck for the load, so it didn't make sense to dump that kind of
money there. Performance should be better than with older IDE -- less CPU
for disk operations. (And of course it'll be a lot faster than the current
setup regardless.)
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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| (...) Not to mention the fact that current IDE drives are just as reliable as SCSI. SCSI is nice if you need maximum speed and can live with little storage space (SCSI above 74 GB is rare still, IDE goes to 250GB easily But the generated heat and (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Matthew could answer this better than I, but my opinion is that the money is put to better use in ECC memory, and gobs of it. We're starting of with 1GB of RAM, upgradeable to 8GB. Since the OS automatically allocates unused RAM toward (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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