Vivek,
Thanks for your feedback. Which Dell server did you purchase?
The client has a PowerEdge 2600 and they STILL want Dell. Again, if it
were my pocketbook, Dell would not be there.
The client has a 30GB DB. This is large for me, but probably not with
you. Also, I am advising the client to go to a 10+ disc array (from 3)
and enough RAM to load half the DB into memory.
Steve
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:22 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Steve Poe wrote:
>
> >
> > Can anyone share what their experience has been with Intel's dual core
> > CPUs and/or Dell's new servers?
>
> I'm one of the few Dell fans around here... but I must say that I
> don't buy them for my big DB servers specifically since they don't
> currently ship Opteron based systems. (I did call and thank my sales
> rep for pushing my case for them to do Opterons, though, since I'm
> sure they are doing it as a personal favor to me :-) )
>
> I just put up a pentium-D dual-core based system and it is pretty
> wickedly fast. it only has a pair of SATA drives on it and is used
> for pre-production testing.
>
> >
> > I am hoping the client is willing to wait for Dell to ship a AMD
> > Opeteron-based server.
>
> Don't wait. It will be *months* before that happens. Go get a Sun
> X4100 and an external RAID array and be happy. These boxes are an
> amazing work of engineering.
>