Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?) - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Anjan Dave wrote:
> In terms of vendor specific models -
>
> Does anyone have any good/bad experiences/recommendations for a 4-way
> Opteron from Sun (v40z, 6 internal drives) or HP (DL585 5 internal
> drives) models?
>
> This is in comparison with the new Dell 6850 (it has PCIexpress, faster
> FSB 667MHz, which doesn't match up with AMD's total IO bandwidth, but
> much better than previous 6650s).

Dell cuts too many corners to be a good server.

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