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

From Christian Sander Røsnes
Subject Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)
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Msg-id 200504201814.12633.christian@aspiro.no
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In response to Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
List pgsql-performance
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 17:50, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

Hi

Which corners do Dell cut compared to the competition ?

Thanks

Christian

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