On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> Just to confirm -- why do you say "[Opteron] will have 2X as many
> disks"? In the dual-Opteron setup above I have 2 hard disks with
> RAID1, whereas in the single-Xeon quad-core setup I have 4 disks with
> RAID 10.
What I was trying to suggest was that the 3Ware system with the Intel
Quad-Core processor would likely be faster than the Dual Dual-Core Opteron
system even with the same number of disks because of how much faster its
controller is, and the fact that the 3Ware+Intel system has twice as many
disks just increases how much faster I'd expect it to be.
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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD