[Gllug] re: dual Xeon/Opteron server

[Neil Chambers]

> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Martin A. Brooks <martin at clues.ltd.uk>
> To: Greater London Linux Users Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] re: dual Xeon/Opteron server
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:19:38 +0100
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:13, Doug Winter wrote:
> 
> > A dual opteron box only sets you back a couple of grand.  It's hardly 
> > worth the vast extra expense of SCSI just for a rather dubious increase 
> > in reliability.
> 
> We just bought a pair of dual opteron 242 workstations.  Both with four
> 200gb SATA drives, 3ware 9500s-4 RAID controller and 2gb RAM. They were
> just over £2000 each.
> 
> Go price up an equivalent spec dual Xeon machine.

Sadly I'm tied to a 'preferred supplier' so had to go with a Dual Xeon
SCSI system (HP wx8200).

with 2 x 2.8GHz processors, 4GB of RAM, 2 x 36GB 15k SCSI disks the unit
came in @ £3.5k 

just glad it's not my cash
n
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